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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #200 on: August 22, 2016, 10:14:55 PM »
Do we retire this issue now?

Trump will enforce obama laws on amnesty 'with more energy'.

Obama has deported more immigrants than any other president. Now he’s running up the score.
http://fusion.net/story/252637/obama-has-deported-more-immigrants-than-any-other-president-now-hes-running-up-the-score/

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #201 on: October 03, 2016, 09:55:04 AM »
President Obama checked yet again.

Supreme Court blocks Obama immigration plan
Published June 23, 2016
FoxNews.com

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Obama’s immigration executive actions, in a tie decision that delivers a win to states challenging his plan to give a deportation reprieve to millions of illegal immigrants.

The justices' one-sentence opinion on Thursday marks a major setback for the administration, effectively killing the plan for the duration of Obama's presidency.

The judgment could have significant political and legal consequences in a presidential election year highlighted by competing rhetoric over immigration. As the ruling was announced, pro-immigration activists filled the sidewalk in front of the court, some crying as the ruling became public. Critics of the policy touted the decision as a strong statement against "executive abuses."

"The Constitution is clear: The president is not permitted to write laws—only Congress is. This is another major victory in our fight to restore the separation of powers," House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement, adding that the ruling rendered Obama's actions "null and void."

Obama, though, said the decision “takes us further from the country that we aspire to be.”

He stressed that earlier changes his administration made to immigration policy are not affected, but acknowledged his most recent 2014 changes cannot go forward and additional executive actions are unlikely.

While Obama accepted the ruling, he also made his own full-court press, saying the split decision underscores the importance of the current court vacancy and the appointment of a successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to "break this tie." So far, Senate Republicans have not considered Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland.

"The court's inability to reach a decision in this case is a very clear reminder of why it's so important for the Supreme Court to have a full bench," he said Thursday at the White House.

The 4-4 tie vote sets no national precedent but leaves in place the ruling by the lower court. In this case, the federal appeals court in New Orleans said the Obama administration lacked the authority to shield up to 4 million immigrants from deportation and make them eligible for work permits without approval from Congress.

Texas led 26 Republican-dominated states in challenging the program Obama announced in November 2014. Congressional Republicans also backed the states' lawsuit. 

The decision lands in the middle of a heated election season in which immigration is a central issue. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, won the primaries while railing against Obama administration immigration policies as dangerous.

Democrats have, in turn, called his rhetoric racially divisive while defending the administration's move to expand existing programs that would effectively give temporary legal status to some undocumented residents.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton countered Ryan's statement saying the decision was "purely procedural" and leaves "no doubt" the programs were within the president's authority. Referencing the 4-4 split on the court, she again urged the Senate to give Obama's nominee to fill the remaining court vacancy a vote.

"Today’s deadlocked decision from the Supreme Court is unacceptable, and show us all just how high the stakes are in this election," Clinton said in a statement.

The immigration case dealt with two separate Obama programs. One would allow undocumented immigrants who are parents of either U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents to live and work in the U.S. without the threat of deportation. The other would expand an existing program to protect from deportation a larger population of immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Obama decided to move forward after Republicans won control of the Senate in the 2014 midterm elections, and the chances for an immigration overhaul, already remote, were further diminished.

The Senate had passed a broad immigration bill with Democratic and Republican support in 2013, but the measure went nowhere in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.

The states quickly went to court to block the Obama initiatives.

Their lawsuit was heard initially by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas. Hanen previously had criticized the administration for lax immigration enforcement. Hanen sided with the states, blocking the programs from taking effect. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled for the states, and the Justice Department rushed an appeal to the high court so that it could be heard this term.

Texas officials hailed the decision Thursday.

“The action taken by the President was an unauthorized abuse of presidential power that trampled the Constitution, and the Supreme Court rightly denied the President the ability to grant amnesty contrary to immigration laws," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement. "Today's ruling is also a victory for all law-abiding Americans—including the millions of immigrants who came to America following the rule of law."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/23/supreme-court-blocks-obama-immigration-plan.html

US Supreme Court Denies Obama Request to Rehear Major Immigration Case
Monday, 03 Oct 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear a bid by President Barack Obama's administration to revive his plan to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4-4 in June.

In a brief order, the court rejected the administration's long-shot request, meaning the justices' June 23 decision is final. That ruling left in place a lower court decision that had blocked the plan, which Obama announced in 2014 but never went into effect.

The court remains one justice short following the February death of Antonin Scalia.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Supreme-court-obama-immigration-rehear/2016/10/03/id/751366/#ixzz4M2ewMKyd

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #202 on: October 18, 2016, 09:56:23 AM »
10-times deported Mexican man accused of raping a child on a Greyhound bus
Published October 17, 2016
Fox News Latino

A man from Mexico who had been deported 10 times in the last six years is behind bars on charges of raping a child on a Greyhound bus.

Hays Post reported Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, 41, sexually abused a 12-year-old girl while on Interstate 70, in Kansas' Geary County, late last month.

“A Greyhound bus had made a stop in Kansas City and there was an alleged rape that occurred on the bus, however they had no idea where this rape took place,” Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf told Hays Post.

Martinez-Maldonado also had a 2013 federal felony conviction for illegal re-entry into the country, according to information provided by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to The Kansas City Star.

The criminal complaint on the rape was filed on Sept. 30, the paper said.

He was arrested by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in Missouri and was turned over to ICE until charges were filed, the paper said.

Martinez-Maldonado remains jailed on $100,000 bond.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/10/17/10-times-deported-mexican-man-accused-raping-child-on-greyhound-bus/

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #203 on: November 15, 2016, 10:19:45 AM »
LAPD Chief: We Won't Assist Feds in Deporting Immigrants
By Solange Reyner   |   Monday, 14 Nov 2016

Los Angeles police officers will not assist the federal government in deporting immigrants according to a report in The Los Angeles Times.

"I don’t intend on doing anything different," LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told the L.A. Times Monday. "We are not going to engage in law enforcement activities solely based on somebody’s immigration status. We are not going to work in conjunction with Homeland Security on deportation efforts. That is not our job, nor will I make it our job."

President-elect Donald Trump ran his campaign on the premise that he would be very strict on immigration and build a wall between the Mexican and U.S. border. He also said he would deport millions of undocumented immigrants, clearing up that notion Sunday when he told CBS’ Lesley Stahl on ’60 Minutes’ that his administration would focus on deporting immigrants with criminal records first.

The LAPD has for a long time separated itself from federal immigration procedures. Officers cannot approach people with the objective of discovering if the person is an immigrant and, under Beck, the department has stopped turning people over to federal agents if they are arrested for low-level crimes.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/charlie-beck-chief-lapd-wont-deport/2016/11/14/id/758856/

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #204 on: December 09, 2016, 05:27:42 PM »
Illegal Immigrant Deported 8 Times Charged in Fatal Hit-and-Run Crash
Dec 09, 2016 // 10:43am     
As seen on The Kelly File

An illegal immigrant who has been deported eight times is wanted in the hit-and-run deaths of two women in Louisville, Ky.

The Department of Justice announced that Mexican national Miguel Angel Villasenor-Saucedo, 40, was driving the truck that killed the women on Oct. 22 and then fled the scene.

A warrant has been issued for his arrest, and he faces no more than a maximum of two years in prison if captured, the announcement stated.

Laura Wilkerson, whose son Josh was killed by an illegal immigrant in 2010, reacted on "The Kelly File," saying she's "enraged" by the report.

Officials said Villasenor-Saucedo repeatedly crossed into Texas by wading or rafting across the Rio Grande. Wilkerson said she supports President-elect Donald Trump's hardline stance on combating illegal immigration.

"Now is the perfect time for him to do what he says he would do, which is build the wall, enforce law and get out illegals who are here committing crimes," said Wilkerson, who chairs Enforce the Law, an organization opposed to sanctuary cities.

Wilkerson said the border is wide open right now and that the country cannot assess who is here until the flow of illegal immigrants is stopped.

Watch the full interview above.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/12/09/illegal-immigrant-deported-8-times-hit-and-run-suspect-kentucky

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #205 on: December 09, 2016, 05:43:50 PM »
Do we retire this issue now?

Trump will enforce obama laws on amnesty 'with more energy'.

Obama has deported more immigrants than any other president. Now he’s running up the score.
http://fusion.net/story/252637/obama-has-deported-more-immigrants-than-any-other-president-now-hes-running-up-the-score/

I know this post was from a while ago, but..............

The definition of what "Deportation" means, i.e. what counts as a "deportation" was largely changed by the Obama Administration around 2010. They include more things under the "Deportation" umbrella. Hence the bigger number.

You should have known this.

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #206 on: December 09, 2016, 07:21:46 PM »
I know this post was from a while ago, but..............

The definition of what "Deportation" means, i.e. what counts as a "deportation" was largely changed by the Obama Administration around 2010. They include more things under the "Deportation" umbrella. Hence the bigger number.

You should have known this.

Specifically, the Obama Administration started counting people turned away at the border as "deportations," which grossly inflated the actual deportation numbers. 

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #207 on: December 20, 2016, 12:49:48 PM »
Los Angeles plans $10-million for immigrant legal aid in wake of Trump election
By: Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio
Posted: Dec 19 2016

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11 / AP) - Los Angeles elected officials and community leaders say they are setting up a $10 million fund to provide legal services to immigrants facing deportation in the wake of Donald Trump's election.

Mayor Eric Garcetti's office said Monday about half the money will come from public funds and about half from private foundations.

It was not immediately clear how the funds will be allocated.

The move comes as major cities and counties in Democratic strongholds across the country are beefing up legal services for immigrants to combat Trump's promises to boost deportations.

Los Angeles county supervisors are expected to consider on Tuesday a proposal to set aside $3 million to provide lawyers for immigrants.

http://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/224505164-story

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #208 on: December 28, 2016, 07:36:52 PM »
Sanctuary City Status ‘A Great Way to Start New Year’, Says Mayor
by BOB PRICE
27 Dec 2016
Boulder, CO

Boulder, Colorado is rushing to formalize its status as a sanctuary city in the weeks leading up to the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump.
“That seems to be a meaningful goal post to shoot for,” Mayor Suzanne Jones told Boulder’s Daily Camera newspaper.

“A great way to start the new year.”

The local news outlet reported the move is largely symbolic as Boulder already follows the policies of other jurisdictions classified as “sanctuary” jurisdictions. The decision appears to be an “in your face” move in response to the incoming president’s threat to defund similar cities.

The mayor and city council of Boulder directed the city attorney’s office to draft an ordinance for either the council’s January 3 or 17 meeting. It was not confirmed if the draft would contain the word “sanctuary.”

The Daily Camera reported:

Councilwoman Mary Young said that Boulder might do better to keep “sanctuary” out of any action it takes so as to at least try to minimize attention of the Trump administration. She also said that immigration workers she’s spoken to believe that action is more important than words, and that a city calling itself a sanctuary is not as meaningful as some believe.

“What matters is that we have the force of law behind it,” Young said. “That we walk the walk was more important to them than talking the talk.”

The City of Boulder appears to already be in violation of federal law requiring local officials to cooperate with immigration authorities.

The Boulder police chief, Greg Testa, told the local news outlet, “We do not detain anybody based on immigration status and we do not report immigration status to the federal government.”

The sanctuary policy would likely put the City in violation of Section 1373 of Title 8 of the United States Code. The law was passed in 1996 during the administration of President Bill Clinton to force local and state jurisdictions to cooperate with immigration officials or risk losing federal funding, Breitbart Texas reported in November. Part of the process requires the federal agency’s office of inspector general to certify that a jurisdiction is not in compliance in order to block funding.

The previously unenforced law could now become the tool for the Trump Administration to use to quickly force sanctuary cities into compliance, U.S. Representative John Culberson told Breitbart Texas earlier this month.

“The law requires cooperation with immigration officials 100 percent of the time,” Culberson told Breitbart Texas. In February, Culberson provided Attorney General Lynch with a list of more than 300 sanctuary cities compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Since that time, the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General has certified 10 of these jurisdictions as sanctuary jurisdictions and the top ten have been notified they will not be eligible for federal law enforcement grants in the coming year.

The City of Boulder is not currently on the list of 300 sanctuary jurisdiction, but Boulder County is. The Boulder County sheriff has, along with other Colorado sheriff’s announced they will not honor immigration detainers issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Between January 2014 and September 2015, Boulder County officials refused to honor 19 immigration detainers, eight of which were for illegal aliens with prior criminal histories, CIS reported.

The Daily Camera reported a Colorado law passed in 2013 allowed the state’s sheriff’s to not notify ICE when there was probable cause to believe the inmate was an illegal alien. That law could place the State of Colorado in the same status as the States of California and Connecticut who have already been certified by the DOJ as not being in compliance with the law.

Since the Colorado law was passed in 2013, “the state’s sheriff’s declared they would not honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers,” the local newspaper reported.

“The critical steps (for cutting federal funding to sanctuary cities) have already been taken,” Chairman Culberson stated previously. “President Trump and Attorney General Sessions will, on day one, be able to strip the funding from these sanctuary jurisdictions simply by enforcing existing law.”

“The timing on this action by the DOJ is perfect,” Culberson told Breitbart Texas. “The new administration can go right to work to force these jurisdictions to comply or simply choose to stop receiving federal money.”

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/12/27/sanctuary-city-status-great-way-start-new-year-says-mayor/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #209 on: January 02, 2017, 08:15:41 AM »
Mexican man charged with rape had 19 deportations, removals
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press
DECEMBER 30, 2016 1
WICHITA, KAN.

A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

Three U.S. Republican senators — including Kansas' Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts — demanded this month that the Department of Homeland Security provide immigration records for 38-year-old Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, who is charged with a felony in the alleged Sept. 27 attack aboard a bus in Geary County. He is being held in the Geary County jail in Junction City, which is about 120 miles west of Kansas City.

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, from Iowa and chairman of the judiciary committee, co-signed a Dec. 9 letter with Moran and Roberts to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, calling it "an extremely disturbing case" and questioning how Martinez-Maldonado was able to re-enter and remain in the country.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it has placed a detainer — a request to turn Martinez-Maldonado over to ICE custody before he is released — with Geary County. ICE declined to discuss his specific case beyond its October statement regarding the 10 deportations.

Court filings show Martinez-Maldonado has two misdemeanor convictions for entering without legal permission in cases prosecuted in 2013 and 2015 in U.S. District Court of Arizona, where he was sentenced to serve 60 days and 165 days respectively.

A status hearing in the rape case is scheduled for Jan. 10. Defense attorney Lisa Hamer declined to comment on the charge, but said, "criminal law and immigration definitely intersect and nowadays it should be the responsibility of every criminal defense attorney to know the possible ramifications in the immigration courts."

Nationwide, 52 percent of all federal prosecutions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 were for entry or re-entry without legal permission and similar immigration violations, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

It's not unusual to see immigrants with multiple entries without legal permission, said David Trevino, a Topeka immigration attorney who has provided legal advice to Martinez-Maldonado's family. Most of Martinez-Maldonado's family lives in Mexico, but he also has family in the United States, and the family is "devastated," Trevino said.

"(President-elect Donald Trump) can build a wall 100 feet high and 50 feet deep, but it is not going to keep family members separated. So if someone is deported and they have family members here ... they will find a way back — whether it is through the air, under a wall, through the coast of the United States," Trevino said.

He declined to comment on Martinez-Maldonado's criminal history and pending charge.

Records obtained by AP show Martinez-Maldonado had eight voluntary removals before his first deportation in 2010, which was followed by another voluntary removal that same year. He was deported five more times between 2011 and 2013.

In 2013, Martinez-Maldonado was charged with entering without legal permission, a misdemeanor, and subsequently deported in early 2014 after serving his sentence. He was deported again a few months later, as well as twice in 2015 — including the last one in October 2015 after he had served his second sentence, the records show.

ICE said in an emailed statement that when it encounters a person who's been deported multiple times or has a significant criminal history and was removed, it routinely presents those cases to the U.S. attorney's office for possible criminal charges.

Cosme Lopez, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Arizona, declined comment on why prosecutors twice dismissed felony re-entry after deportation charges against Martinez-Maldonado in 2013 and 2015 in exchange for guilty pleas on misdemeanor entry charges.

Arizona ranks third in the nation — behind only the Southern District of Texas and the Western District of Texas — for the number of immigration prosecutions among the nation's 94 federal judicial districts for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse records show.

Moran told the AP in an email that the immigration system is "broken."

"There must be serious legislative efforts to address U.S. immigration policy, and we must have the ability to identify, prosecute and deport illegal aliens who display violent tendencies before they have an opportunity to perpetrate these crimes in the United States," he said.

http://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/article123768739.html#storylink=cpy

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #210 on: July 25, 2017, 04:30:27 PM »
Illegal immigrant in upstate NY allegedly raped young girl
Published July 25, 2017
Fox News

An illegal immigrant living in New York allegedly raped a girl several times when she was 12 and 13 years old -- including once in front of a baby.

Fernando Alvarado-Perez, 37, was charged with first-degree rape, criminal sexual act and four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, the Livingston County News reported.

The Genessee Sun reported Alvarado-Perez had sex with the girl while in front of a baby, however, additional information surrounding the case was not available. It’s unclear when the alleged rapes occurred.

NORTH CAROLINA MAN ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL

Alvarado-Perez told police he had come to the United States illegally about 10 years ago, officials said, adding that Border Patrol and immigration officials were notified. An immigration detainer was issued by the Department of Homeland Security to the Livingston County Jail where Alvarado-Perez is being held without bail.

The Livingston County News reported a new policy dictating how Geneseo police officers are supposed to interact with individuals who may be illegal immigrants did not come into play when investigating and arresting Alvarado-Perez.

Geneseo Police Chief Eric Osganian told the Livingston County News in an email Monday: “Our officers were concerned about investigating this incident and assisting the family the best we could with referral services to other agencies. His immigration status wasn’t a priority to us.”

The police department adopted the policy in May after a traffic stop in March involving two adult women and six children suspected of being in the country illegally.

Renda Cole, a resident of Geneseo, launched a GoFundMe page to aid Alvarado-Perez’s alleged victim in finding “the help she will need for the rest of [her] life professionally and emotionally in the form of counselling and anything medically.”

“Anyone affected by rape knows how difficult it can be and how physically draining it is on a family,” Cole wrote on the fundraiser page.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/25/illegal-immigrant-in-upstate-ny-allegedly-raped-young-girl.html

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #211 on: July 25, 2017, 04:50:36 PM »
Survivors of Texas truck where 10 immigrants died seek to trade testimony for visas
Jon Herskovitz and Mica Rosenberg
JULY 25, 2017

AUSTIN, Texas/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the illegal immigrants who survived a deadly human-smuggling journey into Texas are seeking visas to stay in the United States in exchange for testimony against those responsible for an operation that killed 10 people on a sweltering truck, a lawyer said on Tuesday.

There is precedent for such visas and it could help U.S. authorities bring more people to justice, experts said. So far, only one person has been charged, the driver of the truck who said he was unaware of the human cargo aboard until he took a rest stop in San Antonio. He could face the death penalty if convicted.

The case could also provide a test for the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, which has promised to crack down on illegal immigration and the criminal syndicates responsible for human trafficking.

Silvia Mintz, an attorney representing the Guatemalan Consulate in Houston, said she has contacted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to see if it would consider granting "U visas," available to victims of crimes such as human trafficking who have pertinent information to provide law enforcement.

At least 100 illegal immigrants, mainly from Mexico and Guatemala, were crammed into the back of the truck after crossing the U.S. border.

"If we are able to establish the case, we will go ahead and seek the U visa," Mintz said in a telephone interview.

Shane Folden, special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio, said most of the people found alive at the scene are still in local hospitals. He said it was too early to talk about possible visas.

"There are a number of paths toward immigration relief for situations such as this," he said in a telephone interview, adding, "we are not at that point yet."

Of the 39 people found at the scene, 10 have died, 22 were in hospitals and seven have been released and were being questioned, he said.

Most of those aboard the truck fled before authorities could capture them.

Death in Victoria

U.S. law enforcement has granted temporary visas previously for immigrants who provided testimony in what is considered the worst illegal immigrant-smuggling case in U.S. history, when 19 people died after traveling in an 18-wheeler truck through Victoria, Texas, in 2003.

Temporary visas for about 40 people aboard that truck helped U.S. prosecutors charge more than a dozen people with conspiracy in the case, prosecutors said at the time.

Alonzo Pena, a former deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said witnesses in the San Antonio case can be released into the community under strict conditions that could include wearing electronic monitoring devices.

Authorities would likely repatriate the others, said Pena, who runs a San Antonio consulting business, in a telephone interview.

A U-visa is valid for four years and offers a path to apply for permanent residency status. Congress limited the number to 10,000 a year, and the program is heavily oversubscribed.

Those on the truck may also try for a T-visa for victims of human trafficking.

Agent Folden said U.S. authorities want to topple the criminal groups responsible for human trafficking.

"Our primary goal is to disrupt and dismantle these organizations," he said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-bodies-immigrants-idUSKBN1AA2SX

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #212 on: August 01, 2017, 02:38:47 PM »
Portland man accused of sexually assaulting 65-year-old had been deported 20 times
Published July 30, 2017
 
A Portland man accused of brutally attacking a 65-year-old woman has a history of arrests, at least 20 deportations and was released by local authorities in defiance of a federal immigration hold.

Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, was taken into custody Monday night on charges that include robbery, kidnapping, burglary and sexual abuse involving two victims.

Martinez allegedly assaulted a woman in the basement of a parking garage while armed with a knife, police said. The woman kicked him in the stomach and pressed the panic button in her car, and Martinez fled when authorities arrived.

The suspect has been a transient in the Portland area for more than a year and has five probation violations for re-entering the United States.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an immigration detainer against Martinez in December 2016, asking local authorities to notify them before releasing Martinez. However, he was released into the community and ICE was not notified.

It is illegal for cities in Oregon to use their resources to help enforce federal immigration laws; in March, Portland declared itself a "sanctuary city" for undocumented immigrants.

Multnomah County leaders and Sheriff Mike Reese wrote a letter to the community earlier this year saying, “The sheriff’s office does not hold people in county jails on ICE detainers or conduct any immigration enforcement actions,” reports KGW Portland.

Detectives also were able to connect Martinez to another assault that occurred blocks away.

Martinez allegedly entered the woman’s home through an open window, used scarves and socks to blindfold her, then tied her up, gagged her and sexually assaulted her -- slamming her head into the wood floor, reports Fox 12.

The woman told police that Martinez left with her keys, cellphone, credit cards and stole her car. She was able to reach a neighbor’s home to call 911.

Prior to being admitted into jail, Martinez was treated for meth-induced psychosis, according to court documents.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/30/portland-man-accused-sexually-assaulting-65-year-old-had-been-deported-20-times.html

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #213 on: September 05, 2017, 03:37:28 PM »
Every once in a while, a little sanity in DC.

Gregg Jarrett: Trump, in DACA decision, restores constitutional sanity to immigration laws
By Gregg Jarrett Published September 05, 2017
Fox News

By executive fiat, President Obama granted amnesty to immigrants living illegally in the United States.

It was an unconstitutional act, to be sure. Obama had previously admitted he had no authority to end deportations of illegal aliens when he said, “The notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true.”  Then he went about doing it anyway, conjuring a new breadth of hypocrisy.

His successor, President Trump, is now taking the first step toward restoring sanity to the rule of law as it applies to the Constitution and immigration.

By rescinding the Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program that gave a deportation reprieve to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, Trump is returning legislative authority to the legislature. He is reinstating the separation of powers that are fundamental to our democracy.

Usurping Legislative Authority

Under the Constitution, congress is vested with writing laws and the president is charged with executing those laws.  This is especially true when it comes to immigration.

At the end of the 19th century, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that congress has “plenary power” (meaning full and complete) to regulate immigration. Derived from Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, the doctrine is based on the concept that immigration is a question of national sovereignty, relating to a nation’s right to define its own borders and restrict entrance therein.

As the high court observed,“Over no conceivable subject is the legislative power of Congress more complete.”  (Oceanic Stem Navigation Co. v. Stranahan, 214, U.S. 320)

Nevertheless, Obama decided to usurp this power by unilateral directive, unconstrained by established checks and balances.  In so doing, he granted himself extra-constitutional authority and upset the carefully balanced separation of powers.  He also subverted the nucleus of our constitutional design: the rule of law.

The only exception to the power of congress in dictating immigration is the 1952 statute in which the legislative branch transferred its authority to the president in cases involving national security. The president is specifically empowered to restrict foreigners from entering the country to protect the safety and security of Americans. This law formed the basis for President Trump’s travel ban.

In all other immigration matters, only congress is authorized to make laws which the president must enforce.   

Distorting Prosecutorial Discretion

Those who supported Obama’s actions not to enforce the law argued that he was merely engaging in “prosecutorial discretion”.  It is one of those wonderfully fungible phrases in the law.  Elastic because it is vague and ambiguous.  Useful because it can be easily abused.

Obama appropriated this doctrine to justify his near boundless discretion to amend, revise, waive or suspend the execution of immigration laws.  As chief executive, he empowered himself to decide what laws may be enforced or ignored and what persons may come or go across our southern border irrespective of what the law actually states.

In past decisions, the Supreme Court cautioned the executive branch that its prosecutorial discretion, while broad, is not “unfettered.”  (U.S. v. Batchelder, 442 U.S. 114)  It is subject to restrictions. The doctrine may not be used to adopt a sweeping policy of non-enforcement of the law.  It applies only to decisions not to prosecute or expel specific individuals or small groups of people, typically for exigent reasons like war, civil unrest or political persecution.

By contrast, Obama bestowed a wholesale, blanket amnesty for an entire class of people. He did so not for the reasons allowed by law, but for purposes that  were purely political. It was a flagrant abuse of prosecutorial discretion.

The centerpiece of Obama’s 2014 amnesty program was the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, widely known as “DAPA”. But this law never went into effect because a federal judge blocked it, declaring that the program was a likely abuse of executive powers.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed, and that decision was left intact by the Supreme Court.

With several states vowing a similar challenge to DACA, it was destined for the same judicial fate.  That is, an unconstitutional order.       

Breaching His Sworn Duty

Obama insisted he was forced to act because “congress failed to act.” It was an appealing political argument, but utterly untrue.  Congress did act by passing a law in 1996 requiring federal agents to deport illegal immigrants, with few exceptions.  The statutory language is mandatory. That law remains in effect today. Yet, Obama breached his sworn duty by failing to enforce the law.  Instead, he ordered immigration agents, in effect, to break the law.

Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution requires that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”  Nowhere is it written that the chief executive is granted the latitude to pick and choose which laws he wants to enforce.  He cannot ignore or nullify laws he does not like because the Constitution gives him no power not to execute laws.

To infer such latitude would invite an authoritarian rule anathema to our Founding Fathers’ vision. Obama admitted as much when he said, “The fact of the matter is, there are laws on the books that I have to enforce.”  He was specifically referring to immigration laws. The Constitution does not permitted a president to engage in a de facto repeal of an existing law.  To do so is, quite simply, lawlessness and a dereliction of duty.

If a president can refuse to enforce a valid federal law, are there any limits to his powers?  What is to stop a president from rewriting other laws with which he disagrees? Or to act where congress has declined or refused to act? Why even have a legislative branch of government at all? What is the point of a Constitution which enumerates and circumscribes powers and duties?   

President Trump will be criticized for revoking his predecessor’s immigration program.  But his decision bears fidelity to the Constitution and the rule of law.

Only congress is empowered to alter immigration laws that affect those who are here in the U.S. illegally. It can either pass a new law or decline to do so.  A determination not to act is, by itself, a deliberate act. This is how the Framers constructed our system of government.

Congress considers and debates a great many bills. Not all of them pass.  This is not a “failure” in a conventional sense, but a decision by declination. It constitutes a prudent and calculated process.     

Obama twisted the law, ignored the Constitution, and abdicated his primary responsibility as chief executive.

President Trump is moving in a different direction.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/05/gregg-jarrett-trump-in-daca-decision-restores-constitutional-sanity-to-immigration-laws.html

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #214 on: September 05, 2017, 03:56:08 PM »
On a regular basis, loads of insanity from politicians. 

Rahm Emanuel creates ‘Trump-free zone’ for students at Chicago schools

By Jessica Chasmar
- The Washington Times -
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday assured incoming high schoolers that they need not to worry about President Trump ending the “Dreamers” program, saying Chicago Public Schools are a “Trump-free” sanctuary for young illegal immigrants.

“To all the Dreamers that are here in this room and in the city of Chicago: You are welcome in the city of Chicago. This is your home. And you have nothing to worry about,” Mr. Emanuel told a group of freshman on the first day of classes at Solorio Academy High School, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

“Chicago, our schools, our neighborhoods, our city, as it relates to what President Trump said, will be a Trump-free zone. You have nothing to worry about,” Mr. Emanuel said. “And I want you to know this, and I want your families to know this. And rest assured, I want you to come to school … and pursue your dreams.”

Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool said the school system is a “sanctuary” for undocumented students.

“We do not allow federal agents on these grounds and in this building,” he said, the Sun-Times reported. “You are safe and secure here to learn, to grow and to pursue your dreams and we hope that you do so.”

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is ending former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which allowed illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to be shielded from deportation.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/5/rahm-emanuel-tells-students-chicago-schools-are-tr/

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #215 on: September 06, 2017, 01:43:26 PM »
On a regular basis, loads of insanity from politicians. 

Rahm Emanuel creates ‘Trump-free zone’ for students at Chicago schools

By Jessica Chasmar
- The Washington Times -
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday assured incoming high schoolers that they need not to worry about President Trump ending the “Dreamers” program, saying Chicago Public Schools are a “Trump-free” sanctuary for young illegal immigrants.

“To all the Dreamers that are here in this room and in the city of Chicago: You are welcome in the city of Chicago. This is your home. And you have nothing to worry about,” Mr. Emanuel told a group of freshman on the first day of classes at Solorio Academy High School, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

“Chicago, our schools, our neighborhoods, our city, as it relates to what President Trump said, will be a Trump-free zone. You have nothing to worry about,” Mr. Emanuel said. “And I want you to know this, and I want your families to know this. And rest assured, I want you to come to school … and pursue your dreams.”

Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool said the school system is a “sanctuary” for undocumented students.

“We do not allow federal agents on these grounds and in this building,” he said, the Sun-Times reported. “You are safe and secure here to learn, to grow and to pursue your dreams and we hope that you do so.”


Um.... isn't that treasonous?  just sayin'

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is ending former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which allowed illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to be shielded from deportation.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/5/rahm-emanuel-tells-students-chicago-schools-are-tr/

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #216 on: January 08, 2018, 09:55:01 AM »
How the heck did people stay here for up to 20 years based on a temporary visit??  

Trump orders 200,000 Salvadorans to leave U.S.
Alan Gomez, USA TODAY
Published Jan. 8, 2018

The Trump administration will end temporary legal immigration status for 200,000 Salvadorans who have been living in the U.S. for nearly two decades, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.

Salvadorans who currently have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) must return to their homeland by September 2019 or become undocumented immigrants if they remain without legal protections.

Salvadorans were first granted TPS in 2001 after a pair of devastating earthquakes that killed nearly 1,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 homes in the Central American country.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen concluded that El Salvador has rebuilt and recovered enough so the emergency declaration is no longer necessary.

"The substantial disruption of living conditions caused by the earthquake no longer exist," Homeland Security said in a statement.

The decision runs counter to those made by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who extended TPS protections for El Salvador every 18 months. Their administrations said the country had not fully recovered from the quakes and also had raging violence from drug cartels that made it impossible for so many people to return to the unstable nation.

The State Department issued a travel warning to U.S. travelers last February about widespread violence throughout that country. "El Salvador has one of the highest homicide levels in the world and crimes such as extortion, assault and robbery are common," the warning said.

Homeland Security said Monday that its decision was based on recovery from the earthquakes and not on the current state of gang violence in El Salvador.  

The moves comes after months of lobbying by El Salvador's government, a bipartisan group in Congress and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all urging Washington to find a way that allows Salvadorans to remain in the United States.

El Salvador's embassy in Washington estimates that 97% of Salvadorans on TPS over age 24 are employed and pay taxes, and more than half own their homes. Salvadorans on TPS have also given birth to 192,000 children, all U.S. citizens, according to the Center for Migration Studies.

"To disregard the contributions that El Salvadorans have made in communities across this country by stamping an expiration date on their lives here is inhumane," said Amanda Baran of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. "El Salvador is one of the world’s most dangerous countries and will be unable to absorb the return of these thousands of people whose lives are inextricably intertwined with those of ours here in the United States."

The decision pleased immigration groups that advocate for lowers levels of immigration, noting the TPS program, created by Congress in 1990, was a short-term fix abused by repeated extensions.

“By ending the Salvadoran TPS, Secretary Nielsen has taken a major step toward saving the TPS program so it can be used for future emergencies,” Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, said in a statement. “The past practice of allowing foreign nationals to remain in the United States long after an initial  emergency in their home countries has ended has undermined the integrity of the program."

The administration has been phasing out temporary protected status granted by Republican and Democratic administrations to 437,000 people from 10 countries that have suffered armed conflicts, earthquakes and other natural disasters, according to the Congressional Research Service.

In November, Homeland Security announced it was ending TPS for about 59,000 Haitians living legally in the U.S. since the powerful 2010 earthquake decimated the country. They must return home by July 2019.

The department also eliminated TPS status for 5,300 Nicaraguans first granted in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch. They must leave by January 2019.

While the department extended TPS for 86,000 Hondurans affected by Mitch for six more months, the administration indicated those people may ultimately be eliminated from the program.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/08/will-democrats-run-on-impeachment-in-2018-midterms-dont-count-it-out.html

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #217 on: January 30, 2018, 03:25:04 PM »
The president offering amnesty to 1.8 illegals, and not this?  One giant middle finger after another to the American people.

Democrats Bringing More Than Two Dozen Illegal Aliens to Trump’s SOTU

by JOHN BINDER
30 Jan 2018Washington, D.C.

More than two dozen illegal aliens are expected to attend President Trump’s “State of the Union” (SOTU) address with Democrats to demand an immediate large-scale amnesty.

. . . .

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/30/democrats-bringing-more-than-two-dozen-illegal-aliens-to-trumps-sotu/

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #218 on: June 10, 2019, 10:55:04 AM »
California Dems agree to full health benefits for many low-income illegal immigrants, in swipe at Trump
Frank Miles By Frank Miles | Fox News

Attorney and host of the 'Hidden Truth Show' podcast Jim Breslo says California politicians can learn a thing or two from President Trump's 'America First' slogan.

In a stance to distance itself from President Trump’s administration, California is set to become the first state in the country to pay for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to have full health benefits.

Under an agreement between Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the state legislature, low-income adults between the ages of 19 and 25 living in California illegally would be eligible for California’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. The deal emerged as part of a broader $213 billion budget.

The plan would take effect in January 2020, the Sacramento Bee reported.

HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS ALONG CALIFORNIA LEVEES MAY BE WEAKENING THEM, OFFICIALS WARN

State officials have estimated the benefits would be available to about 90,000 low-income illegal immigrants at a cost of $98 million per year.

“While it’s not all we sought, it will provide a real tangible difference for people, especially for those around and below poverty and for middle income families who don’t get any help under the federal law,” Anthony Wright, executive director of advocacy group Health Access, said. Indeed, a family of four earning as much as six times the federal poverty level -- or more than $150,000 a year -- would be eligible to get about $100 a month from the government to help pay their monthly health insurance premiums.

To pay for part of it, the state agreed to start taxing people who don’t have health insurance. It’s a revival of the individual-mandate penalty that had been on the books nationwide under former President Barack Obama’s health-care law until Republicans in Congress eliminated it as part of the 2017 overhaul to the tax code.

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The budget agreement still must be approved by the full state legislature; a vote is expected this week. State law requires lawmakers to enact a budget by midnight on June 15. If they don’t, lawmakers would lose their pay.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-democrats-full-health-benefits-illegal-immigrants-trump

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #219 on: June 11, 2019, 03:54:23 AM »

Insane.

California Dems agree to full health benefits for many low-income illegal immigrants, in swipe at Trump
Frank Miles By Frank Miles | Fox News

Attorney and host of the 'Hidden Truth Show' podcast Jim Breslo says California politicians can learn a thing or two from President Trump's 'America First' slogan.

In a stance to distance itself from President Trump’s administration, California is set to become the first state in the country to pay for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to have full health benefits.

Under an agreement between Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats in the state legislature, low-income adults between the ages of 19 and 25 living in California illegally would be eligible for California’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal. The deal emerged as part of a broader $213 billion budget.

The plan would take effect in January 2020, the Sacramento Bee reported.

HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS ALONG CALIFORNIA LEVEES MAY BE WEAKENING THEM, OFFICIALS WARN

State officials have estimated the benefits would be available to about 90,000 low-income illegal immigrants at a cost of $98 million per year.

“While it’s not all we sought, it will provide a real tangible difference for people, especially for those around and below poverty and for middle income families who don’t get any help under the federal law,” Anthony Wright, executive director of advocacy group Health Access, said. Indeed, a family of four earning as much as six times the federal poverty level -- or more than $150,000 a year -- would be eligible to get about $100 a month from the government to help pay their monthly health insurance premiums.

To pay for part of it, the state agreed to start taxing people who don’t have health insurance. It’s a revival of the individual-mandate penalty that had been on the books nationwide under former President Barack Obama’s health-care law until Republicans in Congress eliminated it as part of the 2017 overhaul to the tax code.

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The budget agreement still must be approved by the full state legislature; a vote is expected this week. State law requires lawmakers to enact a budget by midnight on June 15. If they don’t, lawmakers would lose their pay.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-democrats-full-health-benefits-illegal-immigrants-trump

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #220 on: June 11, 2019, 07:03:16 AM »
Insane.


Newsom, former Mayor of Shitfrisco ran on this crap and was still voted in as Governor.  ::)


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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #221 on: June 19, 2019, 03:13:00 PM »
New York Law Gives Illegals ‘Ability to Vote’ After Obtaining Driver’s License
JOHN BINDER19 Jun 2019

A New York state law that allows illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses is likely to also enable them to vote in elections, according to state officials.

The law, supported by state Democrats and the big business lobby, allows the 725,000 illegal aliens to be eligible for driver’s licenses when they are of age. State officials, even a Democrat state Senator, say the law will effectively allow illegal aliens to vote in elections.
 
“Theoretically, they could have the ability to vote,” Democrat state Sen. Luis Sepúlvedahe (D) said, according to the New York Post.

In New York, U.S. citizens only need a driver’s license to register to vote and though applicants are required to swear that they are eligible to vote, state election officials told the Post that “it’s basically an honor system.”

State Senate Minority Leader John Flanagan (R) told the Post:

[A] major concern is that many states, including New York, use their DMVs to enroll voters. Since New York does not have voter-identification laws like the majority of other states do, this bill increases the potential for voter fraud. [Emphasis added]

This means that New York will soon have the most radical, open-ended law in the entire nation. [Emphasis added]
 
In California, where illegal aliens are allowed to obtain driver’s licenses as well, voter fraud has become common across the state. Last year, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) admitted that it had registered 1,500 non-eligible voters, including noncitizens, over the course of just six months.

Government Accountability Institute (GAI) research director Eric Eggers told Breitbart News last year that California’s laws giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens and its latest law known as “ballot harvesting” — which allows political operatives to collect voters’ ballots and deliver them to polling stations — is potentially contributing to mass voter fraud across the state.

Though Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state Democrats, and the business lobby have helped to pass the driver’s licenses for illegal aliens initiative into New York law, upstate New Yorkers and suburban voters have revolted against the plan.

The latest Siena College poll revealed that a majority of all New York voters, 53 percent, oppose giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, including 62 percent of upstate New Yorkers and more than 5-in-10 suburban voters in the state.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/19/new-york-law-gives-illegals-ability-to-vote-after-obtaining-drivers-license/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2DPrtqYZs7H_hOXspvnlUFz8O1EXsAXZtc1KUz8HhkCMnS5B-ThrhfMzA

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #222 on: October 02, 2019, 03:55:48 PM »
This is nuts.

Northern Virginia Officer On Leave After Alerting Feds to Immigrant's Traffic Stop
"This matter damages our reputation," Fairfax Co. Police Chief Edwin Roessler said in a statement
By The Associated Press and NBC Washington staff
Published Oct 2, 2019

A Northern Virginia police officer was put on leave after authorities say he violated policy by alerting federal immigration authorities he was detaining a driver who missed his deportation hearing.

Since 2007, Fairfax County Police policy bars officers from alerting the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement when they encounter someone wanted on administrative immigration violation, provided that the individual is not otherwise being taken into custody.

Chief Edwin Roessler issued a statement Tuesday saying one of his officers responded to a Sept. 21 traffic crash and learned one person involved was wanted by ICE on an administrative warrant for failure to appear at a deportation hearing.

That person was given a summons for driving without a license, a violation in Fairfax County. Then, the officer kept the individual in custody before turning them over to an ICE agent.

"This matter damages our reputation," Roessler said in a statement.

The officer was put on administrative leave with pay and underwent remedial training, the police department told News4. He is expected to return to work on Friday, then the department will complete its internal investigation.

It's not the first time that a D.C.-area police officer was accused of erroneously cooperating with ICE. In July, Prince George's County, Maryland, police clarified their policy after finding that officers wrongfully referred immigrants to the agency.

Chief Hank Stawinski said that some officers mistook administrative warrants for criminal warrants.

Correction (Oct. 2, 2019, 1:33 p.m.): The Associated Press reported the officer was suspended. This story has been updated to reflect that the officer was put on administrative leave with pay.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Northern-Virginia-Officer-Suspended-After-Alerting-Feds-to-Immigrants-Traffic-Stop-561957861.html

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #223 on: October 02, 2019, 04:06:55 PM »
This is nuts.

Northern Virginia Officer On Leave After Alerting Feds to Immigrant's Traffic Stop
"This matter damages our reputation," Fairfax Co. Police Chief Edwin Roessler said in a statement
By The Associated Press and NBC Washington staff
Published Oct 2, 2019

A Northern Virginia police officer was put on leave after authorities say he violated policy by alerting federal immigration authorities he was detaining a driver who missed his deportation hearing.



https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Northern-Virginia-Officer-Suspended-After-Alerting-Feds-to-Immigrants-Traffic-Stop-561957861.html
The guy should be commended and given a medal.
Liar!!!!Filt!!!!

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Re: Amnesty Coming to a Town Near You
« Reply #224 on: October 02, 2019, 04:09:02 PM »
The guy should be commended and given a medal.

Right?