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Lawsuit challenges Davidson County sheriff's immigration powers
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | February 13, 2011 | Brian Haas, THE TENNESSEAN

Posted on 02/13/2011 3:15:14 PM PST by moonshinner_09

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An American citizen held as an illegal immigrant in Davidson County — more than once — may have the strongest legal argument yet against the sheriff's role in a federal deportation program.

Daniel Renteria-Villegas, a 19-year-old Portland, Ore.-born man, has been detained twice by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant, in spite of having a valid Tennessee driver's license, passport, birth certificate and Social Security number. Now he's challenging the sheriff's very authority to participate in a federal immigration enforcement program called 287(g).

He has filed a lawsuit demanding that Sheriff Daron Hall be banned from participating in the program. The argument: Metro's 1963 charter, which stripped the sheriff's office of most of its law-enforcement powers, prohibits jailers from immigration enforcement. This latest challenge, by attorney Elliott Ozment, may be the biggest threat to one of Hall's hallmark programs.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.knoxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 287g; immigration; nashvilletn; renteriavillegas
I think the police did a good job.

When you click the link to transfer to the The Tennessean you will see this guy has all kind of charges pending against him.

Charges of evading arrest and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Report of gun shots fired into club that said he and 6 others would not be allowed entry into club.two days later, he was arrested again,for aggravated assault charge in connection with that Aug. 14 shooting at the club who refused to allow him to enter

1 posted on 02/13/2011 3:15:21 PM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09
...in spite of having a valid Tennessee driver's license, passport, birth certificate and Social Security number.

Having those things doesn't mean jacks*** these days. Hell, they don't even ask the president to provide these items anymore. You can get them anywhere if you've got the cash. Most illegal aliens have these items.

2 posted on 02/13/2011 3:26:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - President Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: moonshinner_09

Understood, he’s a bad guy. What’s that got to do
with immigration enforcement?


3 posted on 02/13/2011 3:26:22 PM PST by Fireone (Liberals are just overschooled, undereducated, adult children.)
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To: moonshinner_09

As far as I know, local law enforcement can’t detain anyone on the simple charge of being a suspected illegal alien unless ICE tells them too.

Now they WILL hold them on other charges. Wonder who is funding this punk’s atty?


4 posted on 02/13/2011 3:29:18 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Only two things come from Texas and I see you're wearing an "I Heart Austin" t-shirt)
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To: Fireone; moonshinner_09

Back in the day when the sheriff “kindly” asked you to move along you just kinda moved along. Unless you are John Rambo.

I think that is the message the sheriff is trying to impress on this kid.


5 posted on 02/13/2011 3:31:32 PM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: Grampa Dave; Cincinatus' Wife; tubebender; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SierraWasp; NormsRevenge; ...
Daniel Renteria-Villegas has been detained twice on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant, in spite of having a valid Tennessee driver's license, passport, birth certificate and Social Security number............and is suing cops.

Illegal Jose Madrigal, the Washington state rapist, had some 30 identities.

EACH FAKE IDENTITY COLLECTS US GOVT FREEEBIES,
--- AND AS EVERY DESPERATE DEMOCRAT KNOWS ---
EACH ILLEGAL IDENTITY VOTES AND VOTES AND VOTES

So How does a "poor" Mexican illegal in the US for a "better" life get a driver's license, passport, birth certificate and SS number?

NORTH BERGEN, NJ -- July 21, 2006 -- Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, authorities said.

The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker.

The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses for any state in the US, passports and resident alien cards, said state police. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. Authorities wouldn't identify the NJ hotel by name for fear it would spark retribution. The Drug Interdiction Task Force, regularly runs checks.

The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. Authorities approached the Texas brothers when they returned to the NJ hotel and questioned them separately. The Texas brothers consented to a search.

Police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.

All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street. Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 Social Security cards..

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REFERENCE Renteria-Villegas has charges pending against him......evading arrest, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, aggravated assault WRT shooting at a club that refused to allow him to enter......and so on and so forth.

6 posted on 02/13/2011 3:45:07 PM PST by Liz
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To: moonshinner_09

Does his documentation have something in common a dead halibut?


7 posted on 02/13/2011 3:53:39 PM PST by depressed in 06 (The only thing the ZerO administration is competent at is bad ideas.)
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Federal Immigration and Nationality Act State and local law enforcement officials have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration

Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)

State and local law enforcement officials have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes without prior INS knowledge or approval, as long as they are authorized to do so by state law. There is no extant federal limitation on this authority.

The 1996 immigration control legislation passed by Congress was intended to encourage states and local agencies to participate in the process of enforcing federal immigration laws.

Immigration officers and local law enforcement officers may detain an individual for a brief warrantless interrogation where circumstances create a reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the U.S. Specific facts constituting a reasonable suspicion include evasive, nervous, or erratic behavior; dress or speech indicating foreign citizenship; and presence in an area known to contain a concentration of illegal aliens.

8 posted on 02/13/2011 4:00:25 PM PST by NoLibZone (Obama must be impeached and tried for treason.)
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To: moonshinner_09

sfl


9 posted on 02/13/2011 4:05:11 PM PST by phockthis
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To: bigheadfred

Ah, the good ol’ days when intimidation and abuse of authority worked.


10 posted on 02/13/2011 4:13:58 PM PST by Melas
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To: Melas

And it didn’t cost us every cent we had.


11 posted on 02/13/2011 4:16:50 PM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: moonshinner_09

And here is what is happening in Arizona!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsH8xvjTAlo


12 posted on 02/13/2011 5:12:11 PM PST by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: moonshinner_09

Maybe he was born in East L.A.!


13 posted on 02/13/2011 5:39:08 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: moonshinner_09

Just a target looking for a bullet, matter of time.


14 posted on 02/13/2011 5:41:00 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: AuntB; Liz

in spite of having a valid Tennessee driver’s license, passport, birth certificate and Social Security number.
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So hes an illegal alien who knows how to work the system...

and it didnt work for him

So whats the problem ???

That hes not deported yet ???


15 posted on 02/13/2011 6:27:49 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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“What’s that got to do with immigration enforcement?’

Nothing. The Tennnessean is just another liberal rag who thinks that enforcing immigration laws is raaaaaaacist.


16 posted on 02/13/2011 6:29:35 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: AuntB; Liz

in spite of having a valid Tennessee driver’s license, passport, birth certificate and Social Security number.
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wheres the passport, BC and SSN from ???

what state, what country ???


17 posted on 02/13/2011 6:30:04 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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