Posted on 10/03/2006 12:10:13 PM PDT by txroadkill
HOUSTON - The Houston Police Department has announced that it will work more closely with federal officials to identify illegal immigrants involved in crimes.
Under the policy announced Sunday, police will ask everyone who is arrested whether they are citizens. Those without identification will be fingerprinted and their criminal histories checked in a national database.
Officers are still barred from asking people who aren't under arrest about their immigration status, a restriction that has prompted critics to denounce Houston as a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants.
But city officials said the new policy will help identify and remove violent criminals from Houston's streets.
"[We are] specifically targeting those people that have been convicted of felonies in this country and have been previously deported and re-entered the country," Police Chief Harold Hurtt said.
Under the new policy, police will hold suspects for immigration officials if a background search shows that the suspect is accused of returning to the country after being deported for a crime or defying an order to leave the country.
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The slaying of Houston police officer Rodney Johnson on Sept. 21 prompted renewed criticism of the department's policy. The officer was shot four times in the head during a traffic stop.
Juan Leonardo Quintero, a Mexican national living in the United States illegally, is charged in the crime. Quintero had been deported once and crossed the border illegally again.
(Excerpt) Read more at dfw.com ...
Culberson introduced an amendment to the House appropriations bill that blocks federal grants to any city that restricts officials from exchanging information with federal immigration authorities. The bill has not yet been signed into law.
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ping
It is the duty of police departments across the United States to arrest those who are breaking the laws of our nation. EVERY one of these police departments that avoid this, is a corrupt police department.
It is evidence of corruption, when police departments choose which laws they will enforce and which they won't. No, that is not their choice. They must enforce the law when they see evidence of criminality, and they cannot simply avoid asking questions to avoid enforcing the law.
Reasonable cause is not limited to cases concerning DUI.
The slaughter of civilians by the horde of criminal invaders did not bother the HPD...damn shame. It took the slaughter of one of their own for the HPD to take action...double damn shame.
Are the Feds coming down on other 'sanctuary' cities?
Power To The American People BUMP!
What will really cook yer noodle is that the Mayor of Houston, Democrat (liberal) Bill White, stated that "his" police officers do not have time to enforce laws that the Federal Government should be doing...
hmmmmm...
So I guess we can forget about detaining people who commit kidnapping??? Last I looked that was a federal crime...
check, got it...
There probably a bevy of federal offences local, state and other law enforcement agencies enforce...
But simply asking to the immigration status of someone they believe may be in the country under false pretenses I guess is asking too much...
"No Habla, Sr. Policia..."
Sometimes the obvious just tend to jump out there at me for some reason...I dunno...
And for the record, I am not blaming the rank and file of any agency, anywhere...Far from it...
...so mayor Bill White will grant me amnesty if I make an undocumented withdrawal from a Federal Reserve Bank?
This will upset the FR "Open Borders" contingent (both of them) when they come out of hiding.
ping
there is supposed to be a law suit against Special Order #40 in Los Angeles. The order that prohibits LAPD from inquiring about a persons legal status and working with INS, border security, whatever.
Hope it is overturned also.
Bttt!
Freaking jerks ..... It took a good policeman being gunned down by an illegal alien Mexican for this to happen
Thus morphing the city from Houston to Whoston.
Why......is it incorrect, not polite, or "not done", to ask if you are a legal citizen?
If, someone asked me, that, I'd hold my head up proudly, and say "Yes!"
But at least it is something.
If one criminal alien gets deported it is worthwhile.
May 1, the gift that keeps on giving.
The Mayors and Police Chiefs of "sanctuary cities" are only leading by the selective law-enforcement example set by the Administrative Branch of the Federal government.
SI SE PUEDES! YES THEY CAN!! :-) This has the illegal alien community (you can read it in Hispanic newspapers across the land and in newspapers in Northern Mexico) and their facilitators up in arms. They see the backlash growing across the USA. It is unstoppable.
Sure, why not...;-)
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