Posted on 11/14/2016 5:10:16 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that he has no plans to change the LAPD’s stance on immigration enforcement, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to toughen federal immigration laws and deport millions of people upon taking office.
For decades, the LAPD has distanced itself from federal immigration policies. The LAPD prohibits officers from initiating contact with someone solely to determine whether he or she is in the country legally, mandated by a special order signed by then-chief Daryl Gates in 1979. During Beck’s tenure as chief, the department stopped turning over people arrested for low-level crimes to federal agents for deportation and moved away from honoring federal requests to detain inmates who might be deportable past their jail terms.
On Monday, Beck said he planned to maintain the long-standing separation.
“I don’t intend on doing anything different,” he said. “We are not going to engage in law enforcement activities solely based on somebody’s immigration status. We are not going to work in conjunction with Homeland Security on deportation efforts. That is not our job, nor will I make it our job.”
Fear among immigrants and their families has rippled across the country in the days following Trump’s election to the presidency. Trump made illegal immigration a central issue of his campaign, vowing to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, deport people who are in the country illegally and unwind immigration relief created under President Obama.
In Los Angeles, officials have tried to alleviate some of those concerns by signaling their support for the city’s immigrant residents. At a meeting Friday at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city would question Trump’s decisions on immigration.
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No wonder California is a blue state! Remove that rogue Police Chief. SMH.
More sedition.
Fire their asses. Do your job or go home.
Police Chief versus POTUS.
Let’s see if we have a government left.
I think he cracked his noggin in one too many motocross wrecks
Drown in your mexican gang culture then, fools.
You idjits have been begging for years for Darwin to take you out.
Any sane folks need to make their Exodus from the land of fruits and nuts post haste.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck might have a budget crunch when federal funding to LA is withdrawn. He might be too busy with other things to worry about lack of enforcement of federal immigration laws.
This will not bode well for him and the city of LA.
Put a cordon sanitaire around the place and cut off all utilities. Process the people as they come out. Chicago to.
They say “sanctuary city” and I say “kesselschlacht”.
Ugh. Chicago TOO.
Time for the Feds to stop funding LA and California. I hate to think how many billions they’ve poured into that cesspit.
San Francisco and LA are going to lose a ton of cash, for not doing their jobs. Such is life.
You will when you lose Federal funding
You will when you lose Federal funding
This Police Chief can whine and moan all he wants, but Obama’s regime forced the issue with Arizona and the courts found that immigration enforcement policy is up to the President....which is kinda why Trump was elected.
You can say these kind of things when you have a federal government that is not sitting on a pile o’ grant money.
There might be a new DOJ but one of the longest running and onerous consent decrees in US history was levied against the LAPD.
They would do well to work with immigration and stop harboring fugitives. The oath is for federal laws as well, and the immigration laws in this nation are specific and reasonable.
...or else build that wall...around California.
Escape from LA!
Maybe the federal government just needs to make it illegal for any law enforcement officer or government official to release an individual who is not in compliance with federal immigration laws. The federal government already makes employers check the immigration status of every person hired, why not make the local law enforcement officers check the immigration status of every person they apprehend.
I'll bet the average LAPD officer wouldn't knowingly violate a federal law, particularly if it carried a serious penalty.
Fire all who refuse to uphold U.S. laws. No more sanctuary cities! How ridiculous that whole concept is. Are those cities party of the U.S. and subject to U.S. laws, or are they part of Mexico/China/whatever illegal they’re trying to shield? Idiots.
Liberals have called for all-out war on the police. These radical “progressive” riots target police and progressives have killed police and targeted them for assassination. Probably one of the strongest voices in support of the police has been Donald Trump and the political movement of working class people that he represents. And this police chief has given them a big FU and sided with the people who are trying to undermine and kill the police. The next time an LAPD officer gets killed by some illegal, this guy needs to think hard who his friends and who his enemies are.
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