Thread: Alderman: Who is tipping ICE on immigrant motorist arrests?

Gail Montenegro, an ICE spokeswoman, said three federal agents are stationed at the Cook County courthouse every weekday "to review the arrest records of subjects booked into custody the previous day." They also review records and law enforcement databases of those defendants scheduled to appear in bond court.

So looks like no one turned them in...ICE is just doing their job....

Hard to believe this guy did not know there were 3 ICE agents sitting in the police dept. doing background checks

The feds are just doing the job you evidently don't want to do....exactly what are the residence paying you for, certainly isn't to keep them and their familys safe, is it.

ROUND THEM UP; GET THEM OUT OF HERE

August 6, 2008
City Holds Hearing on Immigration
As promised, the city council's Human Rights Committee held a hearing Tuesday to investigate who has been "tipping off" the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, leading to the arrest of nearly 60 people with Spanish surnames. "We will not tolerate this in Chicago...We want to know where it's coming from and who is filing these reports," said 26th Ward Alderman Billy Ocasio, chairman of the City Council's Human Relations Committee.

In 1985, Mayor Harold Washington, protesting the government's decision to question the immigration status of people seeking city services and to search city records in an effort to find undocumented immigrants, issued an executive order forbidding city employees from enforcing federal immigration laws. Daley re-affirmed that order in 1989, and in 2006 it became city law. The Chicago Police Department has already investigated 30 of the recent cases, finding that Chicago police officers weren't responsible. 25th Ward Alderman Danny Solis, who requested the hearing, suggested that cook county jail guards or assistant state's attorneys might be turning names over to ICE. But a spokesman for county sheriff Tom Dart says that county guards "are not allowed to assist ICE in going after immigrants."

According to ICE spokeswoman Gail Montenegro "the previous day's arrest records are made available to ICE by the state's attorney's office.... ICE does not racially profile. We are mandated to enforce the nation's immigration laws and we aggressively do so in a fair and humane manner. Anyone residing illegally in the U.S.is subject to deportation and we place a high priority on those illegal aliens who are committing crimes and threatening the public safety."
By Kevin Robinson in News


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