So?
Why is consistency of value here. I would think that varied approaches might illuminate the one that works best.
"I think Homeland Security is going in the right direction," Williams said. "We feel that the 287(g), if properly directed, could be a useful tool. What we did not want was police officers going around and checking green cards."
Why on earth not? What could possibly be wrong with police checking for green cards? Do we have enough federal agents to do the checking? Obviously not or we would not be overwhelmed with illegal immigrants.
A Police Foundation report this year said that the costs of 287(g) outweighed the benefits and that police should be prohibited from arresting and detaining people solely to investigate their immigration status. The report said the program hurt public safety because illegal immigrants were afraid to report crimes for fear of being deported.
Seems to me the critics are mixing apples and oranges here. Is the problem that overzealous police officers are rousting innocent Hispanic looking citizens on our public thoroughfares? Or is the problem that illegal aliens, criminals by definition, are afraid to report crimes committed against them for fear of being sent out of the country. What does one have to do with the other? Why is the fear of being set out of the country if one reports a crime the same as being arbitrarily stopped on the street?
They also must agree to pursue the criminal charges that prompted an illegal immigrant's detention. In other words, police can't make an arrest just to find out if someone is in the country illegally.
I cannot believe that this has been going on. Even the most rabidly anti-immigrant policeman must conjure up some excuse to arrest. In other words even without this pro-anti-immigration restrictions on reasonable police enforcement, the police were not arresting people to check out their citizenship without some other crime to justify the arrest.
The Obama administration will do nothing effective to limit the flow of illegal immigrants but, to the contrary, it will move to make voters of everyone it can find. I don't see how anyone can come to any other conclusion because the justifications for these new regulations are absurd on their face.
Although unstated, this regulatory change is aimed directly at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. If you can’t prove the baseless civil and human rights claims made against him, then change the rules and strip him of his enforcement authority.
How about DUI, providing false identity, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to appear, resisting arrest, transporting illegals, weapons violations, and transporting drugs? These crimes are just part of the jail-free welcome of our new residents. We should subject our lofty elected officials to these crimes since the crimes are not serious.
Declaration of Independence:
He [Obama] has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages [illegal aliens], whose known rule of warfare [slave/drug running], is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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