Posted on 10/20/2007 4:03:36 AM PDT by Man50D
The Mexican Consulate in Texas, which has been at war with Irving city officials over their crackdown on illegal aliens, says it now wants to send mobile units into the city to deliver identification cards to try to save the illegals from arrest.
"If they have the card, their chances of not being arrested would improve dramatically," Consul Enrique Hubbard Urrea told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
He said if police are provided information about a person's identification, they often can just issue a citation, but if there's no ID, suspects more likely are arrested.
Irving Mayor Herbert Gears told the newspaper the ID cards probably wouldn't make that much difference in the city's crackdown. But he did say he would meet periodically with Urrea to review any complaints over the city's Criminal Alien Program.
"Nothing has been changed in regards to police policy and procedure," he told the newspaper.
City residents have been raising complaints about illegal aliens in their city for some time. At the beginning of 2007, a petition with 800 signatures was submitted to the city in support of citizen demands that illegal immigrants who commit crimes be monitored more closely.
The city's effort identifies suspected illegal immigrants in the city's jail and refers them to federal authorities for a review of their immigration status, and consideration for deportation.
Authorities report more than 1,600 illegal aliens, mostly Mexicans, have been handed over the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a little over a year.
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“They should only be given to ICE for case disposition AFTER they have served their Texas prison time.”
Bingo. ICE cannot be trusted!
Any POTUS worh a damn would throw the Mexican cousul out of the country.
I only hope & pray that the Gelding Old Party gets a spine & testicle implant before next year and nominates a true blue conservative to be POTUS.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Don’t hold your breath compadre.
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