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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I know you and others are being factious. But that kind of sarcasm has a way of becoming reality. It should not even be addressed IMHO.
Don’t police take an oath to enforce all laws, local, state and federal? In the fifties when I took the oath as a poluce officer, I did!
"ICE Scraps 287(g) Program That Allowed Local Police to Enforce Immigration Law" {2012}
Excerpt:
"Amid Hispanic calls for immigration leniency, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is scrapping a program that allowed specially trained state and local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration law."~~~clip~~
"The Obama administration in 2009 weakened the 287(g) program by directing state and local police not to arrest many of the illegal immigrants with whom they came into contact."
Fair enough.
People were ready to do that.
OMG, people are going to riot if Trump wins, if Trump does this, if Trump does that.
They don’t get it.
Trump was our only hope of stopping the madness.
And what is so bad about racial profiling?
President Trump set the tone. He was called a racist every second of every day. And now he sits in the White House.
Follow his lead. Racial Profiling? Don’t care. We’re going to do what it takes.
We are on the offensive now, let's take it for all it's worth.
>> people in the country without documentation
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
It was spoken in the midst of the "We will re-build the inner cities" speech(es)
I understood his words to mean, "I'm gonn'a give you guys the reins, cover your six and turn you loose"
LE should have been listening and enough mature people are in place that I have little fear there will be any rogue events.
Doing what Trump rightly wants to empower is what aka obama made illegal and what cost Sheriff Arpaio his job. Too bad for old Joe that Trump didn’t take office a year or two ago.
Wait. If Obama was “deputizing” local police freepers would be screaming bloody murder. What happened to all that Federalism? We give up local power to the Fed just because it’s Trump?
Already had it, until Obama killed it.
It was the 287G program, that removed thousands of criminal illegals from the streets while it was in effect.
Obama stopped it and released all the detained criminals.
how is that 'deputizing'???
“It’s not an empty letter.” Great. Now let’s get LA Police Department in on the news. They can ignore the Boyle Heights losers and simply defend the law. I remember in the 1980’s when green buses full of illegals would drive out of Oxnard toward the border. Even Caesar Chavez, the freak who wanted to be worshipped, liked the green buses.
Hopefully that will change with new ICE leadership.
The first thing any cop does when they pull you over for any reason is ask for a drivers license. No license? Barely speak English? To me that’s reason enough to check to see if you’re a citizen. That’s NOT profiling. In states where they gave licenses to illegals the licenses are different than a citizens license. Bam! That’s not profiling either.
These people are all nuts.
Like them folks caught committing crimes and who can't speaka dee Engliss?
a race of those who accept oppression as a norm..to hell with Islam
Is Mexican a race? Is South American a race? Is Middle Eastern a race?
Sheesh.
Fake “concerns” they are like fake news eggs waiting to be hatched.
If he doesn't undo DACA we have reason to wonder. The Uniparty is very powerful.
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