Posted on 02/20/2003 5:00:43 PM PST by holyscroller
The Alabama state troopers and the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service are about to work together on stemming the flow of illegal aliens into Alabama.
Charles Andrews, the outgoing director of the state Department of Public Safety, and U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., announced Thursday that the state is working on an agreement with the INS and Justice Department for the federal government to provide training to state troopers that will allow them to arrest illegal aliens.
Sessions said federal law has provided for the training for several years, but Alabama and Florida are the first states to be on the verge of signing an agreement with the federal government to get the training, which will allow troopers to arrest illegal aliens on immigration charges.
In the past, troopers could file traffic charges against an illegal alien and call the INS, but the INS was so short of staff that it wouldn't respond except in the most serious cases.
"The immigration service says they must arrest 15 to 18 before they can respond," Sessions said.
Andrews said he had stopped aliens without proper documentation but had to turn them loose because there was only one full-time INS agent serving Alabama.
"Once I issued a traffic citation to them, I really had no further authority to detain them at that point," he said.
Andrews said he did not know how many cases of illegal aliens have been noted by state troopers, but it is a common occurrence.
Sessions said the federal government will pay for the training. It will be conducted either in person or by teleconference, and the length of the training is still being determined, he said.
Federal agents are interviewing some East Tennessee residents who are originally from Iraq. The FBI says the interviews are voluntary and are aimed at gathering intelligence that might aid the U-S if it goes to war with Iraq. Special Agent R. Joe Clark of the FBI's Knoxville office says the more the country knows about the enemy, the better off it is. The bureau has identified 271 Iraqis and conducted 124 interviews so far. To identify the people to interview, agents subpoenaed records of Bridge, a Knoxville organization that helps refugees. The top questions being asked concern military capability and Iraq's infrastructure.
How about in California and the other border states where this is really needed? They could round up 100 in the blink of an eye.
Two states. Florida was the first.
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Gee, do they serve them lunch too? Wouldn't doubt it. Remember formerly conservative Orange County? No more. In the city of Orange and other nearby cities they have created "work centers" for them to get their illegal jobs which are paid in tax-free cash.
They still hang around outside, littering the place up and leering at any woman (and I mean ANY woman) who passes by. If they don't get a job that day, they probably head straight to the welfare office in Santa Ana to pick up their welfare checks and aid to dependent children checks, along with their food stamps. <<maybe a bit of sarcasm, it makes me mad.
It will never happen in the southwest border states.
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