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02-29-2008, 09:24 AM #1
MN: When should police check immigrant status?
When should police check immigrant status?
By CURT BROWN and PAM LOUWAGIE
The woman witnesses say drove her van into a school bus, killing four children in Cottonwood, Minn., last week, apparently had two earlier traffic encounters with law enforcement. Both times officers issued tickets and gave her a ride home without checking her immigration status.
Olga M. Franco’s ability to remain in Minnesota, using a phony name and ID card, has prompted outrage from the U.S. Congress to blogs.
But police chiefs in southwestern Minnesota offer a practical and ethical explanation: They say they don’t detain minor offenders because immigration officials haven’t come to pick up them up in the past. And they don’t want to engage in racial profiling.
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