Posted on 08/07/2006 2:59:35 PM PDT by aculeus
President Bush claims he’s serious about immigration enforcement. Here’s one way he could show it. The Orange County, Ca., sheriff has asked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to train and deputize his detectives in immigration law and to authorize them to enforce it. That way, when a sheriff’s detective comes across an illegal-alien gang suspect, he can get him off the street immediately on an immigration charge. ICE has sat on Sheriff Michael Corona’s request (which conforms to a 1996 federal law) for ten months. If President Bush wants to demonstrate that he is willing to protect the country against illegal-alien criminals, he should order ICE to approve Orange County’s request without further delay.
The Orange County illegal-felon initiative is potentially revolutionary. Congress acknowledged the need to bring local police officers into immigration enforcement ten years ago, when it passed section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. That section addresses the mismatch between the size of the illegal-alien population — currently estimated at around 12 million — and the number of federal immigration officers assigned to apprehending those illegals — about 2000 agents. As the Heritage Foundation’s James Jay Carafano observes, the Department of Homeland Security cannot even deport all the criminal aliens released from prisons, much less find them in the first place.
In the hope of rectifying that imbalance, Section 287(g) allows cops on the beat to be trained as immigration agents, so that they can investigate, arrest, and take custody of illegal aliens with the same authority as a federal agent. It wasn’t until after 9/11, however, that any local police agency requested training under 287(g). The stigma against immigration law enforcement was too great; no local force wanted to risk the wrath of illegal alien advocates.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
The current Administration is not going to do this. We know where the money flows already and that most of the recent pro-border enforcement anti-illegal alien talk out of 1600 Pennsylvania is both an insincere election year charade and six years' TOO LATE!
When I read this headline I thought it was about Orange County Florida ,, we have a big stink going on here where a Guatemalan illegal who has been arrested 9 times and was driving on a suspended/revoked license ran over and killed a motorcycle cop... Our Sheriff Bearry has pretty much said he won't put up with this any longer no matter what the Feds say..
Recepción a los Estados Unidos de México Norteño
Revolutionary is what it's going to take to shake the inertia out of the Washington bureaucracy. We are witnessing a federal government which considers personal political power to be the highest priority, and even that would be tolerable if they would actually address important issues once elected ... such as out of control illegal immigration, out of control spending, impending bankruptcy of social security, and the time bomb of energy policy. But instead they do nothing but aspire to reelection for reelection's sake. The states must reassert their prominence in this this representative republic, and illegal immigration is a perfect opportunity to challenge the arrogance of this out of control federal conglobumess. That's right ... conglobumess ... a new word describing congress, corruption, inertia, incompetence, shortsightedness, greed, arrogance, egomania, and cowardess. The problems of this country will be solved by the states, not the conglobumess.
How the He** did they gain control and authority over illegals? Take back our state rights, start prosecruting these law breaking parasites.
Illegal aliens who “only” engage in felonies punishable by under five years in jail would be treated like citizens and subjected only to the criminal law, not to immigration enforcement.
“Law-abiding” illegal aliens would be equally outside the scope of the deputies’ authority. “We’d be running a shuttle service to the jail” if the county set the threshold on immigration inquiries too low, says sheriff spokesman Jon Fleischman.
The generic illegal alien problem is “too prolific, we don’t have time to deal with it.”
So, I am going to assume that the Sheriff's Officers will turn a blind eye to other (I will assume) crimes which fall in the "under five years" criteria, such as breaking and entering, drug possession, car theft, certain assaults, etc., --hell, that should cover just about everything, excluding rape and murder.
And, so, the generic illegal alien problem is "too prolific" to have time (or interest) to "deal with?"
Ah, the wisdom and benefits of "selective enforcement."
How does one renounce their citizenship and become an illegal alien? Inquiring minds want to know!!!!
BTTT
I voted for Mr. Bush twice. I still support him on most things but on immigration he is just plain wrong.
Round up all the illegals and send them ALL home. Let them come in a legal and orderly manner.
Bill
Well, if the wrath of the "advocates" is too much, shoot them.
The time is here where the illegals shoot you, fools...shoot back and shoot the"advocates" too if they get too "wrathful". Enough of this BS.
On a sidenote...Hey Mr. President. I've lost much respect for you. When are you going to live up to your vows as CiC and honor the Constitution you swore to uphold?
FMCDH(BITS)
Bush received a windfall from my votes against Weird Al Gore and Hanoi Jane Kerry.
Some good commentary on the article from a blogger:
Bush Administration Stalls Local Immigration Law Enforcement
Heather Mac Donald says the Bush Administration refuses to grant Orange County California sheriff's deputies the right to enforce immigration law.
President Bush claims he’s serious about immigration enforcement. Here’s one way he could show it. The Orange County, Ca., sheriff has asked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to train and deputize his detectives in immigration law and to authorize them to enforce it. That way, when a sheriff’s detective comes across an illegal-alien gang suspect, he can get him off the street immediately on an immigration charge. ICE has sat on Sheriff Michael Corona’s request (which conforms to a 1996 federal law) for ten months. If President Bush wants to demonstrate that he is willing to protect the country against illegal-alien criminals, he should order ICE to approve Orange County’s request without further delay.
But President Bush does not want to protect the country against illegal alien criminals as much as he wants to flood the country with tens of millions more illegal aliens.
Orange County spends $18 million holding illegals who already are wanted for immigration law violations. That's just one county in one state.
Orange County, Ca., spends nearly $18 million a year incarcerating just those illegal aliens who already have immigration holds on them — over ten percent of its jail population; that number leaves out the many other illegal-alien criminals who have escaped ICE detection entirely.
In contrast to most of the existing local immigration agreements, the Orange County plan tries to nab illegal-alien criminals before they end up in jail. Unlike state highway troopers, sheriff’s detectives work in the most crime-prone, often immigrant-heavy, neighborhoods every day; they actively seek out criminals rather than waiting for a law-breaker to come to them. In these gang-saturated neighborhoods, illegal-alien criminals prey on law-abiding immigrants; their law-abiding victims are usually reluctant to provide evidence against them. The only tool that a law-enforcement officer may have for getting an illegal gang-banger off the street is his immigration status; trying to build a case for armed robbery, say, may be futile. Moreover, if an investigator has only enough evidence to detain someone briefly for questioning about a crime, but not yet probable cause to arrest him, a quick check of the immigration database may provide grounds to arrest him rather than let him get away.
We should not have to live with the consequences of Hispanic gangs in our neighborhoods. We should not have to live in a decaying society. We should not have to be governed by lying elites that work to harm our interests.
Due to objections from illegal immigrant advocacy organizations and the Bush Administration illegal immigrant appeasers Orange County has had to water down their proposal.
Orange County’s original proposal would have given sheriffs deputies on routine patrol access to the ICE immigration-crime databases — not just detectives. ICE and immigrant advocates rejected this reasonable idea and also sharply reduced the number of detectives who would be given clearance to check immigration databases.
The Bushies pretend they want to enforce immigration laws. But the Bushies reject any proposal that would be effective. You can't trust them.
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