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    Police chiefs press for immigration reform

    Police chiefs press for immigration reform

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    By Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic

    PHOENIX — Some of the nation's top cops on Wednesday called upon Congress to promptly adopt an immigration reform measure, saying local law enforcement agencies across America are struggling to deal with crime and confusion caused by a broken system.
    About 100 police chiefs and administrators from Framington, Mass., to San Diego joined Department of Homeland Security officials in Phoenix for a National Summit on Local Immigration Policies sponsored by the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit law enforcement educational organization.

    During closed discussions, the participants agreed that America needs a comprehensive new law containing guest-worker programs, a means for immigrants to become permanent residents and federal enforcement of the prohibition against hiring illegal immigrants, according to Chuck Wexler, the forum's executive director.

    Dennis Burke, senior adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, agreed with the police chiefs.

    "Congress needs to work quickly," Burke said. "Delay is not painless. Secretary Napolitano has said the situation the country is in is not defensible."

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    The meeting focused on the struggles of community police agencies in coping with unlawful immigration and related crime. Police administrators said Department of Homeland Security enforcement efforts have inconsistent and unreliable for years, leaving police and sheriffs agencies to establish helter-skelter policies that polarize the public.

    "It's starting to tear my town apart," said Steven Carl, the chief in Framington, "especially with the economy going south. You see a hatred toward the immigrant population."

    Larry Boyd, police chief in Irving, Texas, said he has been "beaten over the head" by conservative groups for not going after illegal aliens, and by Latino groups for enforcing immigration laws. "Neither side was dealing with factual information," Boyd added, "but it's an issue the media loves to cover."

    Phoenix police Chief Jack Harris noted that Arizona's capital city leads the nation in kidnappings — mostly involving human-smuggling syndicates that reflect federal policy failures. "It needs to be fixed, and it needs to be done sooner rather than later," Harris said.

    Alan Bersin, President Obama's border czar, assured police administrators that a transformation is underway in Homeland Security.

    "There's no question that under this secretary there's been a sea change," Bersin said, adding that ICE already is focusing more on workplace violations rather than immigrant roundups. However, he concluded, enforcement is likely to remain schizoid "until there is a reform of immigration law that is acceptable to the American people."

    Police administrators were especially critical of the government's so-called "287(g)" program which provides for state and local police to enforce immigration law. The program has created nationwide confusion and controversy.

    Paul Lewis, an associate professor of political science at Arizona State University who recently surveyed 237 U.S. police agencies, said nearly one-fifth of the departments have a policies that eschew immigration enforcement, 28% pursue undocumented aliens to some extent, and nearly half have no immigration enforcement policy at all.

    George Gascón, outgoing police chief in Mesa, Ariz., noted that 60 Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies raided his suburban City Hall and library recently, looking for undocumented workers. Gascón said only three were arrested, adding, "I have seen the ugly side of this enforcement."

    Many of the chiefs stressed that state and local immigration enforcement conflicts with community policing because it makes undocumented aliens fearful of reporting crimes or serving as witnesses. They said short-sighted policies lured the estimated 11.5 million undocumented immigrants into the United States, and the enforcement debate has been oversimplified by advocacy groups.

    "I think a lot of people are trying to see, well, where's the new (Obama) administration going to go with this?" added Boyd, the Irving, Texas, police chief.
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    Why would law enforcement officers want to reward the criminal actions

    of millions of ILLEGAL aliens by giving them citizenship?
    NO AMNESTY

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    These guys are just whiny that they need to take on all aspects of protecting the community. And that includes protecting a business that does the right thing from those others that hire illegals.
    Right now illegals are mostly committing crimes against other illegals, but how soon will it be nationwide when illegals start attacking American citizens?
    At this point all law enforcement agencies should be working together, not picking and choosing which laws apply.
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    During closed discussions, the participants agreed that America needs a comprehensive new law containing guest-worker programs, a means for immigrants to become permanent residents and federal enforcement of the prohibition against hiring illegal immigrants, according to Chuck Wexler, the forum's executive director.
    Somebody please explain to me how this will fix the immigration system, I am so tired of hearing such nonsense..legalizing people WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM!! it will only make it worse....WHERE IS THE COMMON SENSE IN THIS COUNTRY??????
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    Laws for some but not for all means all laws are bogus.

    As soon as the government passes legislation that allows illegals the same rights, opportunites and benefits as American citizens our country becomes a country without laws.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS
    During closed discussions, the participants agreed that America needs a comprehensive new law containing guest-worker programs, a means for immigrants to become permanent residents and federal enforcement of the prohibition against hiring illegal immigrants, according to Chuck Wexler, the forum's executive director.
    Somebody please explain to me how this will fix the immigration system, I am so tired of hearing such nonsense..legalizing people WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM!! it will only make it worse....WHERE IS THE COMMON SENSE IN THIS COUNTRY??????
    common sense SOSA? like elvis, it's "left the building"!
    ...I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid...

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    Letter From The Alamo Feb 24, 1836

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    Quote Originally Posted by TexasBorn
    Quote Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS
    During closed discussions, the participants agreed that America needs a comprehensive new law containing guest-worker programs, a means for immigrants to become permanent residents and federal enforcement of the prohibition against hiring illegal immigrants, according to Chuck Wexler, the forum's executive director.
    Somebody please explain to me how this will fix the immigration system, I am so tired of hearing such nonsense..legalizing people WILL NOT FIX THE PROBLEM!! it will only make it worse....WHERE IS THE COMMON SENSE IN THIS COUNTRY??????
    common sense SOSA? like elvis, it's "left the building"!
    you got that right TexasBorn!
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