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Austin Police WON'T Arrest People Only For Immigration Status (would hurt trusting relationship..)
KEYE Texas ^

Posted on 04/05/2002 5:05:57 PM PST by chance33_98

Austin Police Won't Arrest People Only For Immigration Status


The U.S. Justice Department, which controls the Immigration and Naturalization Service, says it can't handle the 7 million immigrants currently in the U.S. Therefore, it is considering a proposal to allow local police to do their job for them. Nearly 8 months ago, 19 hijackers slipped through America’s immigration security net committing the most devastating terrorist attacks on American soil. Now, controlling immigration in America has become drastically more important. Austin police say adding immigration duties would undo the trusting relationship local police have built with immigrants. Police say illegal immigrants often do not report crime, for fear they will be deported. Austin Police Assistant Chief Rudy Landeros says, "Our officers will not, and let me stress this because it is very important, our officers will not stop, detain, or arrest anybody solely based on their immigration status. Period." Austin police say however, they will continue to cooperate with federal agents who have criminal warrants for illegal immigrants.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; immigrantlist
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To: chance33_98
Austin Police Assistant Chief Rudy Landeros says, "Our officers will not, and let me stress this because it is very important, our officers will not stop, detain, or arrest anybody solely based on their immigration status. Period."

Looks like the belligerence in government is moving down to the local level. This guy is in serious need of firing.

81 posted on 04/05/2002 8:21:16 PM PST by WRhine
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To: Sabertooth
Landeros is openly declaring his malfeasance of duty, thus encouraging further lawlessness.

He must be trying to land a job with the GOP bigwigs.

82 posted on 04/05/2002 8:23:22 PM PST by Pelham
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Sounds like a conflict of interest to me. Someone check Rudy Landeros immigration status.

What do you want to bet ol' Rudy is a member of the National Latino Peace Officers Association? Seems that this outfit isn't too hot on enforcing any laws that might go against the interests of la raza (see: U.S. may let state, local authorities enforce federal immigration laws). Balkanization? Hmmmm. Wasn't it Teddy Roosevelt who said, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." ???? Rudy needs to become an instant day laborer pest.... along with the 9,999 other jerks he supposedly represents.

84 posted on 04/05/2002 8:30:49 PM PST by Tancredo Fan
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To: chance33_98
These cops are fed up with the fact that the Feds are incapable of performing their job, and because of that, they are now trying to dump the enforcement of Federal Laws on local cops.

The INS needs to do their friggin' job, or maybe we should sh%tcan the entire agency and start all over.

86 posted on 04/05/2002 8:34:15 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: WRhine
Looks like the belligerence in government is moving down to the local level. This guy is in serious need of firing.

Three other fairly large cities in Texas have signed on to not checking immigration status: Fort Worth, Arlington, and Plano(north of Dallas). I suspect most city police departments in Texas are not going to become adjuncts to the INS.

87 posted on 04/05/2002 8:42:11 PM PST by sinkspur
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To: infowars
Most of the Police Chief in the world come from the U.N
88 posted on 04/05/2002 8:42:52 PM PST by freespeech1
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To: Tancredo Fan
What do you want to bet ol' Rudy is a member of the National Latino Peace Officers Association? Seems that this outfit isn't too hot on enforcing any laws that might go against the interests of la raza (see: U.S. may let state, local authorities enforce federal immigration laws). Balkanization? Hmmmm. Wasn't it Teddy Roosevelt who said, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." ???? Rudy needs to become an instant day laborer pest.... along with the 9,999 other jerks he supposedly represents.
89 posted on 04/05/2002 8:45:41 PM PST by antidemocommie
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To: Jhoffa_
It's really starting to appear that way, isn't it?

I can't help but think, and I am confident, that if President Bush wanted to deport these millions of illegal, and stop this immigration "free for all" there would be a whole lot of hard core Bush supporters on this and other threads backing him 100 percent.

90 posted on 04/05/2002 9:23:19 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: RLK
We are in a present situation where there is refusal to enforce a law by people whose parents parallel the people they are supposed to arrest. Local populations and law enforcement officers are from a background that makes them prone to aid illegal immigration.

You hit the nail right on the head. The inmates are running the asylum.

91 posted on 04/05/2002 9:26:06 PM PST by janetgreen
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To: chance33_98
George Orwell calls another one.
92 posted on 04/05/2002 9:28:13 PM PST by breakem
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To: breakem
His work should be required reading for anyone who wants to become a citizen or graduate high school.
93 posted on 04/05/2002 9:31:10 PM PST by chance33_98
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To: Nancy
Now the judge is advised in court "this guy's here illegally." The judge naturally holds them over in jail until trial. Many of the arrests were for drunken driving, burgulary, and sex offenses.

You must be mistaken Nancy, all the illegals in our country are just hard working lawn and garden folks taking care of their families.

94 posted on 04/05/2002 9:33:36 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Sabertooth
Landeros is openly declaring his malfeasance of duty, thus encouraging further lawlessness.

Malfeasance schmalfeasance. Illegal immigration is not a violation of city law. I actually applaud the city police not allowing themselves to be made an arm of the Federal government. Now if the FBI wants to come in and arrest the illegal immigrants, more power to them. Maybe they'd spend less time shooting innocent citizens if they did.

95 posted on 04/05/2002 9:38:00 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: RLK
Thats a hard nasty fact that many seem to be running away from. Unfortunately, this thing is going to catch um no matter where they run to, eventually.
96 posted on 04/05/2002 9:38:39 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Pelham
He must be trying to land a job with the GOP bigwigs.

LOL! Sad, yet funny.

97 posted on 04/05/2002 9:43:26 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: chance33_98
Living in Austin, I'm glad. I don't think the federal government should be interfering in the affairs of the local PDs. The Brady Law was bad enough (didn't some Sheriff fight it out in Arizona?).

The government has INS and Border Patrol, they don't need to try and suck in the local PDs. I don't need the size of the local PD growing because the government can't guard the border. I don't need my tax dollars to go for more militarization of the local PDs.

I was surprised, to be honest. Austin PD has been becoming more and more militarized as it is.

98 posted on 04/05/2002 9:51:43 PM PST by texlok
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To: AzJP
Yet legally a stop cannot me made SOLELY for observed absence of seatbelts.

I don't know how long Arizona has had that law, but going by the Illinois model, I'm guessing that they will soon be able to pull you over just FOR the seatbelt.

Once they got it passed, it was only a matter of a few years before they upgraded it, and nobody made a peep about it.

99 posted on 04/05/2002 9:52:51 PM PST by X-FID
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To: chance33_98
And tested on for government jobs or political office
100 posted on 04/05/2002 9:54:07 PM PST by breakem
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