Cobb Policy: Law Enforcement or Racial Profiling?
Cobb policy: Law enforcement or racial profiling?
Critics say county's policy on illegal immigration has targeted, arrested the wrong people
By Andria Simmons
Over the past two years, Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren has been referred to as a hero, a racist and a few other things unfit to print.
That’s because his department’s partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, which allows deputies to detain inmates suspected of being in the country illegally, has stirred the passions of immigration reform advocates as well as citizens who want current immigration laws enforced.
Warren’s own attitude toward the program, known as 287(g), is matter-of-fact.
“Other agencies or groups have tried to make some big thing out of it saying that we’re profiling,â€