Clay <clays0nline@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Until now, few local police and sheriff's departments wanted any part
>of enforcing federal civil immigration laws. They had their hands full
>with local crime -- and needed witnesses and victims to work with them
>without fear. But as local governments feel mounting frustration over
>illegal immigration, that hands-off attitude is disappearing. More
>than 100 local law enforcement agencies -- including Los Angeles and
>Orange counties in California and Maricopa County in Arizona, which
>includes Phoenix -- have begun or are waiting for training to help the
>Department of Homeland Security root out illegal immigrants and hand
>them over for de****tation.
Excellent. It's about time. Illegals aren't hard to find. You can't
swing a dead cat without hitting a half dozen of them in many parts
of southern California.
>"When my deputies come across illegals, they arrest them -- even on
>traffic violations," said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. "People
>ask me why I am taking this on? The last I heard, crossing the border
>is an illegal activity. I took an oath of office to enforce the law,
>so I am enforcing the law."
Ah yes good ol' Joe Arpaio. IIRC he keeps his jail prisoners in tents
in the desert, gives them cots to sleep on and feeds them bologna
and beans. Heh. He's tough with legal citizens too.
>But some experts say it could spell the end of cooperating with police
>in immigrant neighborhoods.
We'll take that risk.
>"People are very, very fearful of
>interaction with law enforcement, said Susan Shah, with the New York-
>based Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit. "Even people with legal
>status, whose families may have mixed immigration status, now have a
>fear of opening the door."
Nice euphemism. Their "families may have mixed immigration status".
IOW they're surrounded by ILLEGAL relatives. So we should give
them a free pass? Nonsense. Boot their ***** back across the border.
>Mayra Figueroa, the woman stopped in Houston, agrees.
>
>"I have been living here for the last 17 years, and to have an officer
>stop me for no reason and ask for papers, it made me feel like he
>didn't think I belong here," said Figueroa. "It makes people feel that
>anytime that something happens to you, you can't call police."
Boo hoo.
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