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Hispanic Caucus wants Napolitano to cut ties with Arizona police
The Hill ^ | June 1, 2010 | Jared Allen

Posted on 06/01/2010 3:53:18 PM PDT by jazusamo

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) have called on the Department of Homeland Security to sever its ties with Arizona police in response to the state's new immigration enforcement law.

Calling Arizona's recently-enacted law requiring police to question and verify the citizenship of anyone they reasonably suspect to be an illegal immigrant "appaling," three leaders of the Hispanic Caucus wrote Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to demand the termination of its immigration-enforcement partnerships with law enforcement entities in the state.

“The federal government should not be an accessory to the unconstitutional actions of the Arizona state government,” Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “By continuing to work with Arizona police departments operating under SB 1070, the Department is implicitly condoning the shameful tactics authorized by the new law."

Roybal-Allard was joined in signing the letter by CHC Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Immigration Task Force Chairman Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.).

"While we applaud your recent statement opposing the new law, we ask that the Department of Homeland Security immediately suspend its 287(g) and Secure Communities programs in Arizona," the letter states.

The 287(g) and Secure Communities programs are database-sharing agreements that give local law enforcement agencies instant access to federal immigration databases. According to information provided by Roybal-Allard's office, DHS currently has a total of 13 such agreements with jurisdictions throughout Arizona.

DHS has maintained that it is studying the civil rights implications of the Arizona law, which will inform the government's actions going forward.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; chc; democrats; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration
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Be interesting to see how many members of the CHC signing that have read the AZ law and how they think it differs from federal law, if at all. The CHC is playing to illegals and all Hispanics with their hysterics.
1 posted on 06/01/2010 3:53:18 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

UnConstitutional MA.


2 posted on 06/01/2010 3:55:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: jazusamo

it’s about time for these idiots to be told that they swore an oath for this country not Mexico.

what part of illegal do they not understand


3 posted on 06/01/2010 3:56:45 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: jazusamo

The enemy within.


4 posted on 06/01/2010 3:56:55 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: jazusamo

Extraordinary, members of the US Congress demanding that the Secretary of Homeland Security not follow federal law which they (collectively) passed.


5 posted on 06/01/2010 3:57:38 PM PDT by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: manc

They don’t see them as illegal, they see each and every one of them as future Democrat voters


6 posted on 06/01/2010 3:58:22 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: manc

It’s just “appaling,”


7 posted on 06/01/2010 3:58:36 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: usurper

Exactly, my thoughts as well. And by what authority is a Caucus in Congress asking a Secretary of the Exectutive branch to ignore that law.


8 posted on 06/01/2010 4:00:12 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Folks a civil is coming. It is just a matter of time. We are rapidly losing the country as we know and love it.


9 posted on 06/01/2010 4:00:50 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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The CHC is playing to illegals and all Hispanics with their hysterics.

Who else would they be playing to?

10 posted on 06/01/2010 4:00:58 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) have called on the Department of Homeland Security

How more blatantly racist can a group be?

11 posted on 06/01/2010 4:01:01 PM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

nail on head there sarah


12 posted on 06/01/2010 4:03:16 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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I don’t get it. Are they complete idiots or just brain dead?


13 posted on 06/01/2010 4:03:46 PM PDT by ScoopAmma
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To: jnsun

When are the white members of congress going to start a Congressional White Caucus?


14 posted on 06/01/2010 4:04:15 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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“How more blatantly racist can a group be?”

Well, they could call their group “The Race,” but hide it in their native language, like “La Raza.”

Hmmmm.


15 posted on 06/01/2010 4:04:19 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: jazusamo
US OUT OF AZ NOW!

16 posted on 06/01/2010 4:04:50 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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Congressional Black Caucus
Congressional Hispanic Caucus

What other fill-in-the blank Caucus?

Why do they think this is not racist, when THAT is all it is?

17 posted on 06/01/2010 4:06:21 PM PDT by lula ( If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?)
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To: ScoopAmma
Are they complete idiots or just brain dead?

Yes!

18 posted on 06/01/2010 4:06:53 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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Hispanic Caucus wants Napolitano to cut ties with Arizona police

Maybe they should go to Pinnacle Peak's and do just that:


19 posted on 06/01/2010 4:07:56 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Even Hitler had Government run health care, but at least he got the Olympics for Germany)
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Any crackers’s in this parasitic group of socialists?


20 posted on 06/01/2010 4:09:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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