Posted on 01/02/2017 5:04:23 AM PST by Jim Noble
Boston’s Trust Act — designed to reassure immigrants that city police would not help deport them — has a loophole that was used to turn over nine men to federal immigration officials, city records show.
The nine men turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2015 had serious criminal histories, according to police, making their detention less of a public issue. But advocates worry that the same loophole could be used to detain and deport any immigrant for so much as a traffic violation — putting undocumented families at risk if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his promise to expand deportations.
Boston’s version of the 2014 Trust Act was intended by city councilors to keep police out of the business of deporting immigrants. Councilors said the measure would ensure that immigrants see city police as people they can turn to for help — and not as a threat...
The nine included including an Algerian man with a felony conviction for swinging a hammer at a South Boston bar owner; a Dominican man who returned to the United States illegally after being deported four times and is now in federal prison; and a citizen of Vietnam with assault convictions who has more recently been the scourge of Macy’s in Downtown Crossing, pilfering hundreds of dollars in watches, clothing, and hats from the store...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
ANY criminal act - including being illegally here.
Cry me a river. If one is in the USA illegally, then that one is already a criminal, and is subject to arrest and deportation. Send them all back.
Never, in my wildest dreams, would I have thought that the Police would be the ones to turn to for help covering up my crimes.
They keep leaving one word out of the discussion: illegal. Nobody wants to deport legal immigrants, only illegal ones.
.... putting undocumented families at risk...
Illegal criminal aliens put American families at risk.
All Illegals knew the deportation risks when they made the choice to be here illegally. It should come as no surprise.
Despite??? The act contains a clause that allows these violent and repeat offenders to receive JUSTICE. Liberalism IS a mental disease.
” if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his promise to expand deportations.”
...they can safely change “if” to “when”.
Immigrants fill out the paperwork before they get here. Illegals fill out the paperwork after they get here.
the globe is having a reality snit
So long as the Globe exists, Massachuttes is no longer America but NeoEuropa
There is a fence around the White House. To enter without going through security is illegal and you will be removed and arrested. Illegal entry!!!! Illegal entry is ILLEGAL ENTRY no matter when or where.
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Imagine that….Boston police obeying federal law. If Boston can ignore immigration law, then they can also ignore federal fair housing laws, EEOC employment discrimination laws etc. This is why you can’t pick and choose which federal laws your sanctuary city will obey.
I like it. It seems reasonable since being in the US illegally is a federal, not a state or local, crime.
The comments show that even readers of the Boston Globalist “get it.”
“Shows that even readers of the Boston Globalist get it”
There are a lot of people (numerically) in deep blue states that “get it”. There are just a lot more who don’t, or who find advantage in pretending they don’t.
Any illegal act deprives law abiding leagal citizens.
I don’t feel sorry for ANY OF THEM. The families, the kids, the whomever. If the kid was born here to illegal parents then fine, send them all back and when the kid becomes of LEGAL age, they ALONE can return. Issue settled
The world is full of sad stories. There is no shortage.
The question: Should the US government support US citizens, or should the US government support foreigners who have illegally invaded our country?
This stuff isn’t hard. The “sad stories” do not register with me. At all.
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