Thread: Lake Havasu City to consider immigration training for police

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Lake Havasu City to consider immigration training for police

Feb 11, 2007


LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. The City Council will consider a proposed deal Tuesday that would let a small number of local police officers enforce federal immigration law.

While local law enforcement has generally stayed out of immigration enforcement in the past, a rising number of police agencies across the country are now asking the federal government to train officers to make immigration arrests and speed up deportations.

Currently, when an officer makes a routine arrest and suspects the person may be in the country illegally, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is contacted, and the federal government takes over from there.

Lake Havasu City Police Chief Dan Doyle has been working on the special agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Doyle would like to see at least five officers and three jail officers receive the necessary training in immigration law.

The agreement would let the trained officers question people about their immigration status, arrest illegal immigrants and transport illegal immigrants to federal facilities.

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Lake Havasu City OKs police enforcement of immigration laws
Feb 14, 2007
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. -- Police in Lake Havasu City received the support of the City Council to move forward with a plan to train officers to enforce federal immigration laws.


The Council voted unanimously to approve an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a training program for officers. Once trained, the officers would be authorized to interrogate anyone believed to be an illegal immigrant, arrest them without a warrant and transport them to an ICE facility.

Police Chief Dan Doyle said officers will not use racial profiling to target individuals, and tried to ease fears expressed by some residents that Hispanics would be targeted.

"You have to tread very lightly that you don't racially profile in the course of legitimate police business," Doyle said Tuesday.

The Council voted unanimously to approve an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a training program for officers. Once trained, the officers would be authorized to interrogate anyone believed to be an illegal immigrant, arrest them without a warrant and transport them to an ICE facility

GREAT NEWS!

That is great our letters, calls and faxes definitely helped on that one