Thread: N.J.: Officials want cops deputized to check immigration sta

Officials want cops deputized to check immigration status
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 03/13/07
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MORRISTOWN — Morristown officials, beset by complaints about immigrants gathering for day labor and living in crowded homes, want their police force to have the authority to check the immigration status of people in the city.

The town has applied for a program in which local police get that
authority, along with the power to bring civil immigration charges that are
handled in federal immigration court.

If accepted, Morristown could be the first town in New Jersey in the
program by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, The
Star-Ledger of Newark reported in Tuesday's editions.

The application was submitted Friday, Councilman Dick Tighe told the
newspaper.

Ten law enforcement agencies are in the program, created by a federal
law enacted in 1996. Immigration officials said they have had recent
inquiries from nearly 50 agencies.

Immigrations and customs spokesman Michael Gilhooley said police
officers get five weeks of training.

An immigrant rights advocate, however, said the program and the threat
of deportation could intimidate illegal immigrants who are victims or
witnesses of a crime.

""To strike fear of adverse immigration consequences, that's going to
build silence and it's going to make communities less safe,'' Elissa
Steglich, a lawyer with the American Friends Service Committee in Newark,
told the newspaper.

The 2000 Census found that nearly one-third of the town's 18,544
residents were born in other countries, but does not give a figure of how
many may be illegal.

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Come on join the enforce our laws cities!!

An immigrant rights advocate, however, said the program and the threat
of deportation could intimidate illegal immigrants who are victims or
witnesses of a crime.

and your point is???

An immigrant rights advocate, however, said the program and the threat
of deportation could intimidate illegal immigrants who are victims or
witnesses of a crime.

Yeah I'm sure the 911 emergency line is always just flooded w/ calls by illegals reporting crimes.
Gimmie a break!
This argument is just as stupid and as old as all the others pro illegals are using to support their illegal cause.

An immigrant rights advocate, however, said the program and the threat
of deportation could intimidate illegal immigrants who are victims or
witnesses of a crime.

""To strike fear of adverse immigration consequences, that's going to
build silence and it's going to make communities less safe,'' Elissa
Steglich, a lawyer with the American Friends Service Committee in Newark,
told the newspaper.

This is the same reason they give everywhere and it comes right out of the LaRacist playbook. They have a manuel telling people what to say. It's the same old tired ludicrous argument. They don't report crimes because of fear of retribution from the criminals and their co-horts. This ludicrous childish response of "I'll quit playing with you if you don't stop it", is outlandish. Who cares....it's their loss.

They also unwittingly imply that there is a LOT of crime among the Hispanic community and the police MUST have their cooperation or they will never solve a crime.