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Monday, October 8, 2007
Irving Police/ICE Program Success
by bigjolly | 10/08/2007 12:10 am | Alert moderator


Ever since the Irving, TX police department joined with I.C.E. in a program called the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) last year, the results have been outstanding in deporting illegal aliens that have committed criminal offenses inside U.S. borders. That success has brought out a couple of strange arguments for the program to be eliminated.

One reason cited is that children are being withdrawn from schools by their parents out of fear of being deported.

At Nimitz High School on Thursday, Mayor Herbert Gears assured about 100 students that nobody would visit schools to check their immigration status. School officials have said at least 90 students had withdrawn recently from the Irving district because of deportation fears.
I’ll admit to having mixed feelings about educating the children of illegal aliens. But color me jaded for thinking that the school officials are more concerned about the $400,000 plus per year these 90 students represent in lost state revenue and are trying to limit their losses.

Another argument is that legal immigrants and citizens are being subjected to racial profiling, being stopped on the street and asked for papers. Total nonsense.

[quote]The racial rhetoric and rampant rumors that followed have left many Irving Hispanics – even those who are in the U.S. legally – feeling forced into the shadows.

Many Hispanics are afraid to leave their homes or send their children to schools in a suburb where one-third of the population is foreign-born. They feel racially profiled by police and unwanted by white neighbors.

“It may not be real, but there’s that feeling,â€