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    Top cops: Illegal alien cons must go

    Top cops: Illegal alien cons must go

    2 sheriffs ignore governor, seek to boot criminals

    By Dave Wedge
    Thursday, August 11, 2011


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    Two tough-on-crime southeastern Massachusetts lawmen are openly defying Gov. Deval Patrick’s push to end a controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants, pledging to work with the feds to deport undocumented foreign lawbreakers that land in their jails.

    Bristol Sheriff Thomas Hodgson and Plymouth Sheriff Joseph McDonald are moving forward with plans to join the federal Secure Communities program, despite Patrick’s campaign earlier this summer to cancel the state’s participation, the Herald has learned.

    “There’s nothing he can do,” Hodgson said of Patrick. “He can complain or do whatever he wants. He can challenge me legally. I don’t frankly care. I didn’t get elected by the governor.”

    The two Republican sheriffs are slated to meet with officials from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency next week to hash out plans to share inmates’ fingerprints and other information to weed out illegal aliens.

    Forty-two states take part in the program but Patrick pulled Massachusetts out, citing concerns that illegals were being deported after being charged with only minor crimes. The governor also argued that the state routinely shares arrestees’ fingerprints with the FBI and refers all convicted felons to ICE.

    “The governor’s position is nothing short of irresponsible,” Hodgson said. “Anytime we can implement an initiative to make our communities safer, we have an obligation to do that.”

    John Birtwell, a spokesman for McDonald, said: “The sheriff has been foursquare behind Secure Communities and has been trying to work with the local officials as well as ICE officials in Washington to join the program.”

    Patrick, citing concerns of “ethnic profiling,” refused to sign a memorandum in June that would have required law enforcement agencies to share fingerprints with ICE.

    In a June letter to ICE, the governor’s public safety czar Mary Heffernan cited “conflicting messages” from ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as a report that found just one in four deportees under the program in Boston had been convicted of a “serious crime.”

    The report also found more than half of those deported were listed as “non-criminal.”

    Patrick spokesman Alex Goldstein yesterday refused to comment directly on the efforts of Hodgson and McDonald, but said: “The governor has made his concerns about this program clear to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, and he is going to continue to express those concerns moving forward.”

    The issue came to a head earlier this year when Luis Guaman Cela, a 40-year-old illegal immigrant from Ecuador, was charged with the brutal bludgeoning murders of Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela and her toddler son in Brockton. Guaman Cela had a violent rap sheet under an alias and fled to Ecuador after the murders.

    Boston has been part of Secure Communities since 2006, but Mayor Thomas M. Menino also has threatened to pull out of the program. City officials are slated to meet with ICE on Aug. 24 to discuss the issue.

    Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...icleid=1357908

    source: http://blackstonian.com/news/2011/08...-cons-must-go/
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