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.
You may applaud those cops in Austin and think its great, but I can assure you, there are thousands of police, and local sheriffs that are extremely tired of seeing whole regions of their jurisdictions being turned into a criminal third world while the federal government has tied their hands behind their backs.
Reminds me of what the feds did to the citizens of California when we won the election for prop 187 that would have halted the tax support for criminal illegal aliens and the feds walked in and declared our free election illegal, and burned our ballots.
Well, then the city police ought to quit responding to bank robberies because that's a violation of federal law just like illegal immigration is. Or should the city police respond to some violations of federal law but not to other violations of federal law?