Posted on 09/23/2010 9:01:16 AM PDT by La Lydia
JEFFERSON CITY | The number of illegal immigrants arrested by Missouri troopers has fallen significantly in the three years since the state began checking the residency status of everyone booked into jail. The Missouri State Highway Patrol turned up an average of one illegal immigrant per day during the initial months after former Republican Gov. Matt Blunt in August 2007 ordered it to check the immigration status of everyone it incarcerated, according to records obtained under the state Sunshine Law.
But the number of illegal immigrants found by those checks declined more than 40 percent in 2008 and an additional 30 percent 2009. It has leveled off there this year.
Missouri’s requirement, which became law in 2008, was a precursor to an Arizona law that requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question people’s immigration status if there is a reasonable suspicion they’re in the country illegally...
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If you check them, they won’t come....what a concept!
Either the program is working or the illegals have figured a way around it ..... or they’ve moved to sanctuary states and cities.
I think it’s probably the latter.
Wonder why Obumster hasn’t sued them like AZ?
Here in PA Philadelphia has a hands-off policy on illegals and there's no question they are coming here. Hopefully this will change when Tom Corbett becomes governor in January.
Please! Don’t give the Kenyan any ideas!!! And, yes, it has worked, not only the patrol checks, but have to prove citizenship to get a job or a driver’s license here.
It’s really easy to see why this has happened. Once the illegals realize the cost of violating the traffic rules could be deporation, they take precautions not to be picked up by cafrefully following the law.
A friend used to run a MO Dept of Revenue office (License Bureau) in a small town. The illegals targeted her office to try and get a drivers license. I suppose they think small town people are too stupid to know or care what is going on. According to her, a car load would pull up out of sight and one by one they would attempt to get a license with faked documents, sometimes even using the same documents over. She said it was a big problem. What the illegals don’t realize is in a small town we know each other and are suspicious of strangers. I would think large city offices would be easier to slip through.
Ping!
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