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| laura bush - VEHICULAR HO |
 Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:11 am |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/nyregion/14jails.html?ex=1145678400&en=d3a1b39a8209be9f&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY
Path to Deportation Can Start With a Traffic Stop
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
Published: April 14, 2006
While lawmakers in Washington debate whether to forgive illegal
immigrants their trespasses, a small but increasing number of local
and state law enforcement officials are taking it upon themselves to
pursue deportation cases against people who are here illegally.
In more than a dozen jurisdictions, officials have invoked a
little-used 1996 federal law to seek special federal training in
immigration enforcement for their officers.
In other places, the local authorities are flagging some illegal
immigrants who are caught up in the criminal justice system, sometimes
for minor offenses, and are alerting immigration officials to their
illegal status so that they can be deported.
In Costa Mesa, Calif., for example, in Orange County, the City Council
last year shut down a day laborer job center that had operated for 17
years, and this year authorized its Police Department to begin
training officers to pursue illegal immigrants — a job previously left
to federal agents.
In Suffolk County, on Long Island, where a similar police training
proposal was met with angry protests in 2004, county officials have
quietly put a system in place that uses sheriff's deputies to flag
illegal immigrants in the county jail population.
In Putnam County, N.Y., about 50 miles north of Manhattan, eight
illegal immigrants who were playing soccer in a school ball field were
arrested on Jan. 9 for trespassing and held for the immigration
authorities.
As an example of the uneven results that sometimes occur in such
cross-hatches of local and federal law enforcement, the seven
immigrants who were able to make bail before those agents arrived went
free. The one who could not make bail in time, a 33-year-old roofer
and father of five, has been in federal detention in Pennsylvania ever
since.
"I took an oath to protect the people of this county, and that means
enforcing the laws of the land," said Donald B. Smith, the Putnam
County sheriff. "We have a situation in our country where our borders
are not being adequately protected, and that leaves law enforcement
people like us in a very difficult situation."
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I got no problem with this. Illegals are criminals and i say catch
then any way you can and kick them out of here. |
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