Thread: 14 officers trained to check immigration status

14 officers trained to check immigration status

Associated Press
December 13, 2010 3:00 am

Fourteen jail officers for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office have received federal training to determine the immigration status of people who are brought to jails.

They completed a four-week training course and join dozens of other jail Maricopa County jail officers who already have the training.

Sheriff's officials say the training is intended to prevent illegal immigrants who are charged with crimes from being released on the streets

Last year, the sheriff's office was stripped of its special authority to make federal immigration arrests, though it continues to do immigration enforcement under state laws.

But the sheriff's office still retains the federal power that lets jail officers check on people's immigration status.

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Are you serious? It takes 4 weeks to learn how to verify immigration status? Wow. That sounds like a very thorough program to sort through fraudulent documents.

Originally Posted by Judy

Are you serious? It takes 4 weeks to learn how to verify immigration status? Wow. That sounds like a very thorough program to sort through fraudulent documents.

There's more to determining immigration status than looking for fraudulent documents.
Someone can have real documents and still be deportable because of crimes they have committed elsewhere after they got those documents, or they used false info to obtain those real documents.
Not everyone who is booked into jail has any ID on them.
They might be a U.S. citizens and if you deport them they get to sue every agency involved.