Posted on 01/26/2017 6:17:18 PM PST by Hadean
President Trump on Wednesday directed his homeland security secretary to deputize local law enforcement officials to enforce immigration laws, a move that civil rights advocates fear could embolden police to racially profile those they encounter.
The directive came as part of a sweeping executive order that cracks down on people in the country without documentation and the cities that don’t readily hand them over for deportation.
The order instructs the homeland security secretary to broker agreements with governors and local officials so that state and local law enforcement authorities can enforce immigration law. It declares that those places deemed “sanctuary jurisdictions,” for blocking government communication about people’s immigration status, be disallowed from receiving federal grants. And it reinstates a program meant to deport those in the country illegally when they are arrested on other, sometimes minor, offenses.
The directives send “a shot across the bow of immigrant communities and those localities or states that are welcoming of immigrant communities,” said Cecillia Wang, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union.
“Certainly, I think the immediate purpose is to scare immigrant communities and to scare states and localities that have these so-called sanctuary policies, but I do think there’s meat to this,” Wang said. “It’s not an empty letter, and it’s not an empty threat.”
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Trump thinks that police should enforce laws????????
What a racist!
Pearl
clutching.
OMG. How awful is it to follow the law?
The sounds so logical.
The very idea that cops are racists is offensive. I don’t know about eastern cities but I would imagine they are just like here where they are filled with Americans of all hues. They work together, socialize together and depend on each other for their very lives.
This is already THE LAW...as signed by BILL CLINTON. All the things the purveyors of Fake News won’t tell us
Do it now!
Yea yea yea, and black people are too stupid to get ID’s to vote. We’ve heard their racist bullshit for years. Screw you people. Your time is over!
Pearl
clutching.
OMG. How awful is it to follow the law?
What race?
I'm sure he would deport the "white-meat" illegal aliens right along with all the rest.....
All seven of them.
You got that right, Buster. Trump apparently keeps his campaign promises.
Then again, I'm not a wetback invader .. funny how that works, ehh ?
Islam ain’t a race.
The directives send “a shot across the bow of immigrant communities and those localities or states that are welcoming of immigrant communities,” said Cecillia Wang, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Wrong. It sends a shot across the bow of those breaking the law.
More FAKE NEWS due to the subject matter being completely out of context.
MSN/MSM go back to the drawing board and try again remembering you already have two strikes.
ACLU
Domestic enemies .
Tick Tock
If the shoe fits......
And yes, that is right, white guys can be racially profiled. In this case I had a swing shift and no car and two mile walk home through a neighborhood where there were very few whites after mid-night. So the the police were very suspicious I was there to buy something illicit. And indeed I was often offered illicit services and products as I walked down the street...all because I looked the part of a buyer.. For some of the sellers I looked too much like a buyer, and they rolled their eyes and said things like "evening officer". I thought it was a hoot, and was glad that the police were doing their job. They were suspicious when they stopped to question me, unsure of my explanation that I was just walking through after work...but happily it meant they gave me a free ride home on a couple of occasions in the squad car.
People that moan about being "racially profiled" seem ridiculous to me. While it might be a bit of a pain if one is being pulled over, its because of the fear of getting a traffic ticket. For being talked to on my walk it was actually fun.
Yep.
We should just surrender our country to BLM and La Raza already.
God forbid there be a rule of law inbthis country.
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