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    LAPD won’t honor federal requests to detain some illegal aliens

    LAPD won’t honor federal requests to detain some illegal immigrants

    October 4, 2012 | 1:09 pm

    LAPD Chief Charlie Beck announced Thursday that his department will no longer honor requests from federal immigration officials to detain hundreds of illegal immigrants who are arrested each year for low-level crimes and wanted for deportation.

    The proposed changes to LAPD protocols are the latest, and most dramatic, move by Beck to redefine the department's position on immigration issues. While the change is expected to impact only about 400 arrests a year, it marks a dramatic attempt by the nation's second-largest police department to distance itself from federal immigration policies that Beck says unfairly treats nonviolent offenders who are illegal immigrants.

    Earlier this year, the chief pushed through a controversial plan that limits the cases in which police officers impound vehicles of drivers operating without a license -- a group consisting largely of illegal immigrants. And he came out in favor of issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

    Those earlier forays into the contentious arena of immigration policy earned Beck criticism from those who saw him as going soft on the rule of law and praise from immigration reform advocates.

    This latest proposal, announced at a morning news conference, is certain to put Beck squarely back in that spotlight. The chief said he hopes to have the new rules in place by the start of the new year. They first must be approved by the Police Commission, a civilian oversight board.

    Currently, the LAPD forwards information to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on the roughly 100,000 people it arrests and books into custody each year. In about 3,400 cases each year, Beck said, the federal agency requests the LAPD to place a 48-hour hold on the people arrested in order to give federal agents time to take custody of them and begin deportation proceedings. The LAPD has honored all of those requests in the past.

    Under the terms of the new plan, however, the LAPD would not keep people in custody for immigration officials if they have been arrested for certain nonviolent misdemeanors. Beck said the details of who would be impacted are still being worked out, but gave illegal vending, driving without a license and drinking in public as examples of the types of crimes that will be exempt.

    Documented gang members or anyone with a violent criminal past will still be held for immigration officials, Beck said.

    Beck presented the changes as a way for the department to rebuild trust with the city's enormous immigrant population -- a trust that, he said, has been eroded over the years by the heavy-handed approach immigration officials have taken in which they have failed to distinguish violent, dangerous criminals from those committing petty crimes.

    “I believe it makes the city a safer place for everyone,” Beck said.

    “We need to build trust in these communities. We need to build cooperation.”

    The move comes on the heels of Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision this week to veto the Trust Act, a proposed law that would have gone much further than Beck’s proposed changes in barring local law enforcement officials from cooperating with federal authorities in detaining suspected illegal immigrants, except in cases of serious or violent crime.

    ICE officials had no immediate comment on the LAPD’s policy change.

    However, in January, ICE Director John Morton expressed serious concerns about the decision by authorities in Cook County, Ill., to ignore all of the so-called detainer requests. Morton said the action “undermines public safety,” and hindered the federal agency’s “ability to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.”

    Morton also said that ordinance could violate federal law and urged local officials to reconsider.


    Regarding the legality of his proposed move, Beck said City Atty. Carmen Trutanich's staff had provided him a legal opinion that local police departments can choose whether to honor ICE detainer requests.

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    Los Angeles to Cease Transferring Immigrants

    By IAN LOVETT
    Published: October 4, 2012

    LOS ANGELES — The police in this city will soon stop turning over illegal immigrants arrested for low-level crimes to federal immigration officials for deportation, Police Chief Charlie Beck announced on Thursday.

    At a news conference, Chief Beck said he hoped to put in place a set of protocols by the start of next year, under which the Los Angeles police will no longer honor requests from federal agencies to detain illegal immigrants who are arrested for nonviolent offenses like driving without a license, illegal vending or being drunk in public unless they were part of a street gang or had a criminal record.

    The announcement was the biggest and potentially most controversial step yet for Chief Beck, who has been in his post since 2009, into the highly politicized waters of immigration enforcement. Under Secure Communities, a federal program that began in 2008, local law enforcement agencies share with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials the fingerprints of everyone they arrest.

    But Chief Beck said the program had impeded efforts to keep the city safe by eroding trust between the Police Department and the communities in Los Angeles.

    “Community trust is extremely important to effective policing,” he said. “So it’s my intent, by issuing this change in procedures, that we gain this trust back.”

    The new policy was welcomed by immigrant rights advocates, who were still stinging from Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision just a few days earlier to veto a bill, known as the Trust Act, that would have prohibited local law enforcement officials from detaining illegal immigrants for deportation if they have not been charged with serious or violent crimes.

    “This is more evidence that the Secure Communities program is incredibly flawed and, from our perspective, cruel,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

    Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond on Thursday to requests for comment.

    Chief Beck said the city attorney had told him that carrying out detention requests from federal immigration officials was not mandatory and that the decision to detain a suspect was still up to the Police Department.

    But the Obama administration is pushing back against officials in Cook County, Ill., who last year adopted an ordinance that sharply limited local police cooperation with federal immigration agents.

    Chief Beck said the department planned in the coming months to list the offenses for which illegal immigrants will not be detained. The police commission, a civilian board, must approve the policy.

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    LAPD stance on illegal immigration puts Chief Beck in hot seat

    October 4, 2012 | 5:35 pm
    Joel Rubin and Andrew Blankstein
    Los Angeles Times



    Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck stepped into the national immigration debate Thursday, announcing that hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested by his officers each year in low-level crimes would no longer be turned over to federal authorities for deportation.

    The new rules, which are expected to affect about 400 people arrested each year, mark a dramatic attempt by the nation's second-largest police department to distance itself from federal immigration policies that Beck says are unfair to undocumented immigrants suspected of committing petty offenses.

    It’s the latest in a series of moves by Beck to redefine the Los Angeles Police Department’s position on immigration issues. Earlier this year, the chief pushed through a controversial plan that limits the cases in which police officers impound vehicles of drivers operating without a license -- a group consisting largely of illegal immigrants. And he came out in favor of issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

    Those earlier forays into the contentious arena of immigration policy won praise from some, but criticism from others who said Beck was going soft on the rule of law.

    The chief said he hopes to have the new rules in place by the start of the new year. They first must be approved by the Police Commission, a civilian oversight board.

    Beck portrayed the move as necessary to counterbalance federal laws that require local police to share information with federal immigration officials about people arrested. Federal officials review that information and request that police departments detain thousands of people each year suspected of being in the country illegally. These laws, Beck said, have “a very valid core premise: That you should use the power of the government … to keep and increase public safety. And you should do that by targeting the most serious and violent criminals.

    “Unfortunately that has not always been the case,” Beck said, adding that immigration officials fail to distinguish between dangerous criminals in the country illegally and illegal immigrants suspected of committing petty crimes.

    That heavy-handed approach, Beck said, “has eroded the public trust.” The erosion of that trust is hurting the LAPD’s ability to police effectively in a city that is home to an estimated 750,000 illegal immigrants, Beck said.

    The challenge of policing in a city with such a large shadow population fearful of contact with authority figures is not a new one. More than 30 years ago, the LAPD adopted Special Order 40, a guiding policy that barred officers from making contact with a person solely for the purpose of determining their immigration status. It was an attempt to assure illegal immigrants that they could come forward as witnesses or victims of crimes without fear of deportation. Beck said his proposed reforms would reaffirm that principle.
    “It strikes me as somebody who runs a police department that is 45% Hispanic and polices a city that is at least that, that we need to build trust in these communities and we need to build cooperation or we won’t be prepared,” Beck said.

    Currently, the LAPD sends the fingerprints to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of every person arrested and booked, roughly 100,000 suspects each year. In about 3,400 cases, Beck said, the agency requests the LAPD to place a 48-hour hold, known as a “detainer,” in order to give federal agents time to take a person into custody. The LAPD has honored all of those requests in the past.

    Under the terms of the new plan, however, the LAPD would not keep people in custody for immigration officials if they have been arrested in certain nonviolent misdemeanors. Beck said the details of who would be affected are still being worked out, but gave illegal vending, driving without a license and drinking in public as examples of the types of crimes that will be exempt. Documented gang members or anyone with a violent criminal past will still be held, he said.

    Beck said he had sought a legal opinion from City Atty. Carmen Trutanich on whether police had the authority to ignore ICE detainer requests. He said Trutanich recently advised him that police do have such discretion.

    The move comes on the heels of Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision this week to veto the Trust Act, which would have gone much further than Beck’s proposed changes in barring local law enforcement officials from cooperating with federal authorities in detaining illegal immigration suspects, except in cases of serious or violent crime.

    ICE officials declined to address Beck’s proposal directly, but seemed to bristle somewhat at Beck’s move. “ICE has been dedicated to implementing smart, effective reforms to the immigration system that allow it to focus its resources on criminals, recent border crossers and repeat immigration law violators,” Virginia Kice, an ICE spokesperson, said in a prepared statement. “The federal government alone sets these priorities and places detainers on individuals arrested on criminal charges to ensure that dangerous criminal aliens and other priority individuals are not released from prisons and jails into our communities.”

    Voices from both sides of the immigration debate weighed in immediately on Beck’s plan.

    “What the LAPD is doing is making federal law enforcement decisions, usurping federal law,” said Janis Kephart, national security policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. “These policies create chaos where you absolutely need continuity of enforcement.”

    Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and other supporters of the vetoed Trust Act, praised Beck and tried to position themselves for future negotiations with him. “We look forward to working with the police chief ... to craft a policy that protects Los Angeles from the disruptions caused by the dangerous” federal laws.

    Beck acknowledged his proposal would leave advocates on both sides unsatisfied.

    “What I’m doing won’t go as far as what many want and it goes much further than other people think I should go,” he said.

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    Doug McIntyre: LAPD Chief Charlie Beck soft on illegal immigrants

    By Doug McIntyre, Columnist
    Posted: 10/06/2012 05:17:10 PM PDT
    Updated: 10/06/2012 05:18:42 PM PDT
    Daily News

    Let's recite them together: The three branches of government. Ready?

    The Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial.

    Very good!

    Of course, in L.A. we have a different troika of government -- the Unions, the Developers and the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, aka Politically Correct Charlie Beck.

    On Thursday Chief Beck decided he's the decider.

    We don't need no stinkin' City Council! He'll enforce the laws; he'll make the laws. He is the law.

    Beck's latest edict makes it even easier and more inviting for illegal immigrants to live, work and play in Los Angeles without fear of deportation or nearly any repercussion whatsoever.

    Upset that the federal government had actually created an effective tool to identify and deport illegal immigrants -- the Secure Communities program -- Beck unilaterally announced he would not turn over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement illegal immigrants arrested for so-called "petty offenses" even though he is required by law to do so.

    Earlier this year Beck pushed for and got a new car-impound policy to make it more "fair" for illegal immigrants and also pushed for and got driver's licenses for some illegal immigrants, when Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assemblyman Gil Cedillo's "dream" bill last month.

    With the mayor missing in action, preoccupied as he is campaigning for a spot in a second Obama administration, and half the City Council either running for mayor or fighting to stay out of the slammer, Chief Beck has jumped into the power vacuum and become a self-appointed legislator, creating new laws or deciding which laws will or won't be enforced, including federal laws.

    That titan of jurisprudence, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, ruled -- at Beck's request -- that the chief has the "discretion" to decline detainer requests from ICE. When asked by the Daily News for a copy of his ruling, a spokesman for Trutanich claimed attorney/client privilege.

    Attention Nuch! Your client is NOT Charlie Beck, it's the people of Los Angeles.

    He'll learn that lesson next March when the voters fire him at the polls.

    Meanwhile, Politically Correct Charlie Beck says he hopes to have his new policy in place by the first of the year. Still to be clarified are little details, like which "petty" crimes the chief thinks are OK for illegal immigrants to commit without fear of deportation.

    Beck mentioned unlicensed street vending, drinking in public and driving without a license, which I'm sure seems very petty to Don Rosenberg, whose son Drew was killed last year by an unlicensed illegal immigrant driver in San Francisco.

    "It's a matter of building trust," says the chief.

    Trust for the estimated 750,000 illegal immigrants living in the city of L.A. -- a whopping 19.6 percent of our population, nearly one in five.

    It's obvious the chief, the mayor and the City Council couldn't care less about the breach of trust they've ripped open between those who believe in the rule of law and those who are happy to sacrifice the sovereignty of our country on the altar of race-based politics and expedience.

    Who do you have to murder to get deported around here?

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    . . . LAPD plans to implement the new rules by Jan 1., 2013.
    The department will meet with ICE, the local immigrant community
    and other stakeholders as it devises its new protocol . . .

    LAPD to ignore some ICE detainer requests - FierceHomelandSecurity
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