rssDeparting LAPD Chief Warns Against Using Local Cops Against Illegal Immigrants
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:16 pm
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The departing chief of the Los Angeles Police Department jumped into the fray today over the controversial 287(g) program in the pages of the Los Angeles Times.
Opening with a story about an undocumented homeless immigrant who gave the LAPD an important tip that helped that helped them crack the case of a mysterious murder, Police Chief William Bratton writes that “every day our effectiveness is diminished because immigrants living and working in our communities are afraid to have any contact with the police. A person reporting a crime should never fear being deported, but such fears are real and palpable for many of our immigrant neighbors.”
Bratton is one of many senior law enforcement officials around the country who’ve complained that the 287(g) program, which allows the federal government to enter into agreements that give local police authority to enforce federal immigration laws, leads many immigrants to mistrust local cops altogether and refuse to cooperate them. That’s why, as TWI has reported, 56 police chiefs in major cities across the country have opposed the program.
Today, Bratton chastised Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for expanding the program to 11 more locations. Now 67 state and local law enforcement agencies are essentially acting as immigration agents for ICE — and potentially scaring off illegal immigrant witnesses to crimes in the process.
“My officers can’t prevent or solve crimes if victims or witnesses are unwilling to talk to us because of the fear of being deported,” Bratton wrote, explaining why the LAPD refused to participate in the program.
Bratton cited a report by the Police Foundation — a research organization focusing on crime and law enforcement — that reaches the same conclusion.
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Comment posted October 28, 2009 @ 12:36 pm
Bank robbery is a Federal crime. The LAPD shows up in force to a bank robbery. Why is illegal immigration something that our police feel isn't worth enforcement? I think they're NUTS! Anyone who is against enforcement of the laws of legal immigration is in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the American taxpayer. We are being robbed. Our children are being robbed and the open borders, amnesty advocates are acting against the interest of AMERICA and it's citizens. If you encourage illegal immigrants to come here and subvert the immigration process, breaking every law they want to stay here and take American jobs away from Americans, you deserve to be arrested too. This is a land of laws. GET IT? LEAVE, before we catch you and throw you out.
NO JOBS for illegal immigrants and they will go home the same way they came here.
Deportation by attrition.
Comment posted October 29, 2009 @ 10:14 am
Even after the slaughter of innocent native-born LA children Cheryl Green and Jamiel Shaw by illegal alien gangbangers, officials are still deluded that allowing illegal aliens the full freedom of the city is somehow “beneficial.” LA is a violent Third World toilet (like most Latin American cities) and has been ever since they declared “sanctaury.” Yet somehow they think real Americans haven't noticed what they've become. Meanwhile the real American tax base continues to flee the violence, chaos and Third World poverty of Sanctuary LA, ensuring that LA will continue to slide into Third World irrelevance.
Comment posted November 10, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
Hispanics will not be happy until they turn the U.S. into a piece of crap Country, just like EVERY SINGLE Hispanic country in the World. Seriously, can you think of any Hispanic country that is worth a crap–Spain is the only one that even comes close, and they still get off by stabbing bulls to death and having sex with 12 year old girls. Name the worst cities in the U.S.–Miami; El Paso; Laredo; San Antonio; Houston; any southern city in California–what do they have in common….Hispanics.
Comment posted November 10, 2009 @ 11:55 pm
Hispanics will not be happy until they turn the U.S. into a piece of crap Country, just like EVERY SINGLE Hispanic country in the World. Seriously, can you think of any Hispanic country that is worth a crap–Spain is the only one that even comes close, and they still get off by stabbing bulls to death and having sex with 12 year old girls. Name the worst cities in the U.S.–Miami; El Paso; Laredo; San Antonio; Houston; any southern city in California–what do they have in common….Hispanics.
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