When you’re arrested, local police officers don’t check with the IRS to see if you have your taxes paid up. They don’t check with Licenses & Inspections to make sure your restaurant is up to code, and they don’t check with the NOAA OLE to see if you’re suspected of illegally hunting hawkbill turtles. Those agencies are responsible for coordinating their own enforcement. Immigration law is no different. ICE is tasked with enforcing federal immigration law – that’s its whole reason for existing – and while it might make intuitive sense to have local police aid in those efforts, city and state law enforcement agencies have finite resources. Mayor Nutter, like other mayors and sheriffs around the country, decided to direct his police officers’ finite resources elsewhere.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:02:03 +0000
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