Thread: Feds unresponsive, some cops gripe

By Burt Hubbard
The Denver Post
Posted: 03/07/2009 12:30:00 AM MST
Updated: 03/07/2009 02:04:38 AM MST


Lakeside police Cmdr. David Bell also complains about ICE's inaction. "It's been that way for years and years. They don't have the manpower resources." (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post )Not all police departments are happy with how the federal government responds to their pleas for help on immigration cases.

Several small police agencies said they have gotten little cooperation from officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on people they stop for minor offenses and suspect are in the U.S. illegally.

Randy Ford, town marshal of Green Mountain Falls, a town of 797 people northwest of Colorado Springs, said it's frustrating when ICE doesn't respond.

"We had several situations that we were relatively certain they were undocumented, but we weren't able to hold them long enough to be able to determine their status," Ford said.

Ford said in one case, an officer stopped several men with

Marshal Randy Ford of Green Mountain Falls says ICE failed to respond to names he submitted. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post )Mexican driver's licenses and no other identification outside a suspected drug house. The names were submitted through the ICE website, but Ford said he never heard from the agency.
"We had to kick them loose," he said.

Lakeside police submitted 39 names, or the equivalent of two for every one of the town's 19 residents, to ICE last year and got no response on any of them that didn't wind up in the county jail, said police Cmdr. David Bell.

"It's been that way for years and years," Bell said. "They don't have the manpower resources to come out on incidences of contacting one person."

Bell said his department refers to ICE foreign nationals it stops for traffic offenses who don't have identification or car insurance. In several cases, they admitted they were not in the U.S. legally, he said. Nothing was done.




http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_11857248

It Seems that they are only going to remove Illegals AFTER they have victimized Americans...Makes me feel real safe...lmfao

"It's been that way for years and years," Bell said. "They don't have the manpower resources to come out on incidences of contacting one person."

Or is it that they just don't feel like doing their jobs whenever they feel like it?

It's been that way for years and years," Bell said. "They don't have the manpower resources to come out on incidences of contacting one person."

Do you think we can get Janet Napalitano to have a closed door meeting with our own officials to get to the bottom of why her agency is not responding to requets from local authorities?

Or does she feel it's more important to meet with illegal invader, open border advocates behind closed doors; or conduct hearings as to why certain law enforcement officials in this country are actually doing their jobs against illegal immigration!