Posted on 10/14/2009 10:48:31 AM PDT by Steelfish
Tougher Rules On Policing Illegal Immigrants
Local agencies helping with deportations must keep their focus on major crimes.
Luz Maria Diaz, 35, worries about what will happen to daughters Yolanda, 18, at left, and Diana, 16, right [Pic in URL]. The two were arrested after a fight on their school campus, then processed for possible deportation under a program known as 287(g). The program has drawn criticism after reported civil-rights violations, and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has called for an end to it.
By Anna Gorman
October 14, 2009
Reporting from Raleigh, N.C. - Luz Maria Diaz knew what happened to illegal immigrants at the Wake County jail. But her teenage daughters didn't.
So when the girls were arrested after fighting on their high school campus in September, they freely admitted that they were born in Mexico. Detention officers at the jail checked their immigration status and promptly handed them over to federal authorities.
Now Diana, 16, and her sister, Yolanda, 18, are battling to stay in the country.
"I never thought this could happen . . . for a simple fight," their mother said. "I was in shock."
The Wake County Sheriff's Department is one of eight local law enforcement agencies in North Carolina and 66 across the nation authorized by the federal government to identify illegal immigrants and process them for possible deportation under a program known as 287(g).
Virginia is the only other state with more participating agencies. There are four such agreements in California, including one with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Immigrant advocates and some lawmakers have been highly critical of the program because of reports of racial profiling and civil rights violations. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has called for an end to the program.
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Toss them out. Forever.
Break the law, pay the price.
Boo-frickin’ hoo.
Illegals want it to be illegal to arrest someone for entering the country illegally.
I wonder if it will then be illegal to prosecute those who arrest illegals for entering the country illegally.
Yes- But the 0 Administration will enforce the law of deportation ONLY against violent illegal immigrant criminal offenders. So whatever happened to the solemn constitutional oath of office to faithfully execute the laws of this nation? Apparently that oath has now become a farce.
I wonder if it was my high school, Millbrook? If so, go wildcats.
Why should American taxpayers have to pay $10,000 a year per illegal brat to “educate” them?
Well, I understand that the Hispanic Caucus wants this outlawed, but have we heard from the White Caucus yet?
I mean, you know, it’s important to hear what they have to say...now isn’t it?
Boy, do illegal aliens think they are “entitled” or what?
Ms Diaz and her kids should be deported. Take your whiny arses back to Mexico
UR being “racist” /sarc
It didn't happen for a simple fight. They're not being deported for fighting. They're being deported for being illegal aliens.
We shouldn't. I will however quite happily pay the price to deport each and every one of them. Patagonia works for me.
And they know the mother is here illegally. Why wasn’t she arrested? Why isn’t she, also, in the slammer awaiting deportation?
Hey Ms. Diaz, you gambled with the law and you won for a while, now you lost. Go join your daughters in lawless Mexico. Tough s**t.
So they can grow up to be good socialist democRATS?
America is so finished. Last one out turn out the lights.
Ironically, those who helped finish off America are also, like Kennedy, finished
Sure they do. It's pretty much the same as what she and her ilk have turned southern California into. They'll be right at home, literally and figuratively.
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