Saturday, March 03, 2012

I've said this before, why local police shouldn't be required to act as agents of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). & why they generally don't want to.

ICE agents don't need the cooperation of illegal immigrants to solve neighborhood crime. The crimes of being in the United States illegally, or being illegally employed,  are very low  priorities for urban police forces, & should be. Local police need illegal immigrants to come forward when they witness or are victims of violent crime. Already suspicious of police - they come from countries where local police are corrupt, or worse, have been used by brutal regimes to crush political dissent,  they will not cooperate if the consequence is being arrested & tossed in an ICE detainment facility/prison. Simple as that.

My own views on immigration were centrist & even leaned Bush Republican  until it became wrong to have any compassion for immigrants or want to offer them a path toward citizenship that wouldn't uproot them all & destroy their families. Now my views are considered radical.

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