Thread: Police meet with Hispanics to discuss profiling, immigration

http://www.kansas.com/213/story/98974.html

Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams met with more than 100 members of the city's Hispanic community Saturday to try to clear up misconceptions about how his officers deal with minorities.

A major concern was a fear that any illegal immigrant in Wichita would be immediately arrested if he or she has any contact with Wichita police.

"When a citizen is the victim of a crime, we do not ask if they are documented or undocumented," Williams said.

The meeting at Horace Mann Dual Language Magnet School was arranged by Hispanos Unidos, a branch of Sunflower Community Action.

Organization president Lore Quintero said she hoped the meeting would strengthen ties between police and Hispanics.

The topics included a suggestion that police place bilingual Neighborhood Watch signs in Hispanic neighborhoods.

Police were receptive to the idea, but later said the organization that makes the signs would have to approve the idea.

The group also discussed concerns of Hispanics who think they are sometimes stopped because of their race.

"The Wichita Police Department does not tolerate racial profiling," Williams said. "We have policies, we have procedures, that allow us to address allegations of racial profiling."

Williams encouraged anyone who thinks he or she has been the victim of profiling to file a complaint with the department's professional standards unit.

"What assurances are there that there won't be reprisals against a person who files a complaint?" one audience member asked.

"If we determine an officer retaliates because of a complaint -- when someone commits that violation, it's termination," Williams said.

He encouraged those in the audience to get to know the officers who patrol their neighborhoods. He also suggested that they consider signing up for the Department's Citizen Police Academy.

Emira Palacios, who led the discussion, urged those in the audience to report all crimes in their neighborhoods.

"We want you to file reports," she said. "If somebody asks you for your immigration papers, get the name of the police officer."

Quintero said afterward that she thought the meeting had been a success.

"We don't want our Hispanic community to be afraid of the police," she said.

I just spotted this myself.

The police aided and abetted the illegal aliens here in the San Francisco bay area also.

Here the police addressed the audience and said, I'm going to give you a test. Who here is from a foreign country. Please raise your hand. Many did. Then he said who here is in the country illegally. Some raised there hand. He said all of you that raised your hand just failed. you should never tell anyone that you are here illegally. It was part of a long meeting in Redwood City. Mostly held in Spanish I believe.

This is the chronological order of what follows the ICE raids.


These raids seem to serve two purposes.

One, so the government can pretend to care about enforcement while they carny sell us on a new comprehensive immigration bill. The only parts of any of the other comprehensive bills they implemented were the amnesty and gravy parts for the illegal aliens. They never do get around to the enforcement parts of the bills. Except as some sort of political maneuver.

Two, seems to be to help establish sanctuary cities.


This is what has happened over and over in regards to the immigration raids in California.

1. ICE will hold small raids.

2. The newspapers will start in with the poor illegal aliens being to scared to take their children to school.

3. Public meeting for the illegal aliens will be organized. In cities around the San Francisco Bay Area the police were involved coaching the illegal aliens how to circumvent the law. Many of the meetings were held in Spanish.

4. The honest people got upset and formed their own groups. Many visited their city councils. This is the link to one of the news stories of the aftermath.

http://www.marinij.com/ci_5569114

5. There will be proposals of making the city a sanctuary for illegals!


I'm sorry if I have offended any of you and I do wish you all the best with upcoming events.

P.S. Many in the police departments here are glad to see us stand up to what has been happening to our nation. I’m sure they will be where you are to.



Many honest people are forming groups in their cities and visiting their local city council meetings.

1 Find a place for a meeting. Libraries or coffee shops are good.

2 Let your local news in on what you are trying to do. Patriots or Minutemen are good key words that will let others know what your group is about.

3 Hold a meeting. Get a small group of people elected to help keep things organized and your group functioning.

4 Visit your local city council or other public meetings and let them know how you feel.

Rallies are a good way to let people in your area know what your group is about. Let the police know when you have a rally planned. To keep your group going it can be helpful to have a flyer ready to let people know of your next meeting or rally.

P.S Work on building up your contact list.

http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE ... C1324.html


Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
"Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.