Posted on 09/08/2011 4:51:18 AM PDT by Libloather
Protesters won’t face U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
by GARY L. WRIGHT / Charlotte Observer
WCNC.com
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:40 AM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mecklenburg jail officials said Wednesday they determined that 10 of 15 protesters arrested at an immigration rally Tuesday are in the country illegally.
But the protesters won’t be turned over to federal immigration officials for possible deportation.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told jail authorities Wednesday not to put detainers on the protesters, said Julia Rush, the spokeswoman for the Mecklenburg Sheriff’s Office. The detainers are used to keep defendants in jail while immigration authorities decide whether they should be deported.
Tuesday’s arrests were expected to be one of the first chances to see how a new Obama administration policy on illegal immigrants is implemented. The administration announced last month that those without criminal records – who are found to be a low priority because they are students, were brought to the United States as children or have long family ties to the country – would be released from jail and granted work permits.
Three of the protesters appeared in court by video from the jail on Wednesday.
“I want to confess that I am an undocumented student,” Martin Rodriguez told Mecklenburg District Judge Donald Cureton.
After Cureton set his next court date for Oct. 27, Rodriguez asked the judge if the upcoming hearing was for his immigration status.
“Any immigration matter you will have to take up in federal court,” the judge replied.
Cureton later informed Manuel Vazquez that he does not have jurisdiction on federal immigration matters.
“If they are not holding you, you will be released later today,” the judge told Vasquez.
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They should be fired for not doing their job.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told jail authorities Wednesday not to put detainers on the protesters”,
Of course not. Under husseins rule, they will be given their get out of jail free(voters card) and let go.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Mecklenburg County, NC was about the first county in the US to get 287g
Things have changed there in the last 5 years
maybe theres a new sheriff in town...
By Executive Order, ICE is not to deport illegal aliens who have not committed a crime (other than being here illegally, of course).
PING
Fired by who? Their Obama appointee bosses who are implementing the president’s illegal policies?
2012!!!
Of course the INS won’t pick them up, wouldn’t want to get rid of the help, now would they.
ICE has gotten too used to its clean toilets.
If these “protesters” don’t get processed for deportation then the signal is given. There will be a a rapidly increasing number of illegals demonstrating and protesting. This is perhaps what the administration desires in order to put pressure on the citizenry and Congress for formal legalization of Latinos generally as voting American citizens if they can make the trip and to increase the number f bodies available for all manner of other leftist riot and protest. If that can be accomplished then the Elections in November become meaningless because future elections become vehicles for permanent Democrat one-party socialism.
Laws are only for us suckers who pay taxes.
Ping!
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