Thread: AZ: City Council advances immigration law plans

4/20/2007 4:00:00 AM

City Council advances immigration law plans

Human relations guru Dale Carnegie said it's important to praise improvement, no matter how modest.

So kudos to the Prescott City Council for advancing its plans to forge an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to train two or three Prescott police officers in immigration law and empower them to enforce federal immigration law.

The council is likely to grant final approval as part of its consent

agenda this coming Tuesday.

What's more important, ICE has agreed to take 30 to 50 illegal alien wrongdoers every month should the local officers arrest that many.

The Daily Courier has complained for the past two years about the reluctance of ICE to take locally arrested illegals and deport them once they get this far north.

The faint praise for the council really is more strong damnation for the federal government and its inability to protect our borders. Until now ICE officials have been loath to do any enforcement work north of the border, leaving Prescott and other Northern Arizona comm-

unities on their own once the illegals get here and if they get into trouble. If the council could do more, it would

do more.

The feds, however, deserve some credit for making modest progress. We know what they're saying. Let's see what they do.

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What's more important, ICE has agreed to take 30 to 50 illegal alien wrongdoers every month should the local officers arrest that many.

What happens if the city arrests 70 criminal aliens? Guess the other 20 to 40 will be set free. It's ridiculous to set a quota on how many criminal aliens can be deported. Next thing you know, the federal government will only be prosecuting 4 bank robbers per month from each city - lord forbide the robbery should involve 5 bandits.