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Rogers Mayor Wants To Classify Illegal Immigrants As Nuisances

POSTED: 5:15 pm CDT October 27, 2006
UPDATED: 8:53 pm CDT October 27, 2006
ROGERS, Ark. -- Politicians have been grappling with the issue of illegal immigration for years. However, an Arkansas mayor said Friday that illegal immigration is out of hand, and he intends for his town to help fix the problem.

Rogers Mayor Steve Womack said he wants to make being an illegal immigrant tantamount to being a public nuisance, which would give cities jurisdiction to handle them.

Some towns across American have already passed ordinances for illegal immigration, classifying illegal immigrants as nuisances. Womack said he asked for the ordinance after last week's shooting that sent a Rogers detective to an area hospital.

According to police, the detective was serving a search warrant at a house where, later that night, three people were found to have holds on them from U.S. immigrations agents.

Womack said any way illegal immigration can be tackled in his city, it is better for everyone.

"If they're living here illegally, there's a good chance -- and I don't know the percentage of a chance -- but there's a pretty good chance that they're probably doing some other things that are illegal. That's affecting our quality of life," Womack said.

The specifics of the ordinance have not yet been worked out, but the city's attorney said he wants to strengthen some language from a Pennsylvania ordinance to detail how illegal immigration is a nuisance.

Womack said he hopes to see the ordinance within a week, but he hasn't set a time frame for when it would go before the City Council.