immigration Policy Protects Criminals Now!

[Bonnie]

Police Say Immigrant Policy Is Hindrance
By CHARLIE LeDUFF

LOS ANGELES, April 6 - Carlos Barrera, an illegal immigrant, went on a rampage in Hollywood five months ago, the police said. In the span of two hours, they said, he mugged three people, burglarized two apartments and pushed his way into an apartment, where he tried to rape a woman in front of her 5-year-old daughter.

Mr. Barrera, a Mexican, had been deported four years ago after serving time for robbery, drugs and burglary. He had made his way back into the United States, and although he had been stopped twice for traffic violations, the police were prohibited from reporting him to the immigration authorities.

Almost any Los Angeles police officer will say that some of the most cutthroat criminals here are illegal immigrants. And yet, the police complain that they cannot use immigration status to apprehend a convicted criminal who was ordered deported.

Known as a sanctuary policy, the police rules here prohibit officers from inquiring about someone's immigration status with the federal authorities unless that person is being charged with a crime.

The policy, adopted in 1979, was intended to protect immigrants from harassment and to encourage them to use public services without fear of deportation. Immigrants can enroll their children in schools, get health care and - perhaps most significant for the police - come forward when they witness a crime.

But the policy also provides a safe harbor for criminals.

article
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/national/07crime.html?oref=login

 

[007]

Police Say Immigrant Policy Is Hindrance
By CHARLIE LeDUFF






article
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/national/07crime.html?oref=login

I'm going to email that article to the White House, and ask... WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON???!!!

 

[007]

Police Say Immigrant Policy Is Hindrance
By CHARLIE LeDUFF

article
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/national/07crime.html?oref=login

The link is already dead.

 

[Bonnie]

The link is already dead.

Not on my computer?

 

[007]

Not on my computer?

Might have been my firewall. Anyway, third time was a charm...

I did send what you have above to the President though, from here...

http://capwiz.com/politicsol/home/

... good website.

 

[Johnney]

whats the world coming too. well US policy regarding this crap anyway. cant call INS? what kind of shit is that?

 

[nosarcasm]

Even in ultra liberal Germany the police can search your car only
on suspiscion and demand visa papers or other verifications that
they are legally in Germany. Especially in the border regions that
helps alot to catch illegals.

In Idaho I can see the illegals working on the field and the cops
drive by.

Thats why I support the minuteman. Time to call the leaders
on their neglience to public interest. ANd I am a legal alien btw.

 

[William Joyce]

Ditto support of the Minutemen. Bush was not just wrong to denounce them, he was nuts. Bush spends his time meeting with Vincente Fox and cooing over him instead of protecting our borders. There's just no more basic job for the president than to protect the country, and no more direct way to do that than to defend the borders. Bush has failed in this, and the GOP needs to find someone who can do the job.