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    Sanctuary starts at home for Tancredo

    http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_2760920

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    Sanctuary starts at home for Tancredo
    Local police can't be expected to verify the immigration status of everyone they pull over. Rational policies are needed on the federal level.

    The murder of Detective Donald Young has fueled a heated discourse on whether Denver police provide a safe haven, or "sanctuary," for illegal immigrants. The suspect is a Mexican national who was stopped by local police in three traffic incidents, but never detained or deported.

    Anti-immigration hotheads - led by local U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo - say the city is providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants. It's a laughable accusation. After all, what jurisdiction does not?

    For example, there is Littleton, in Tancredo's district. Police Lt. Doug Parker says that if illegal immigrants who are stopped on traffic violations aren't facing criminal charges, "we just advise them that they need to speak to the immigration (people) and kick them loose." He points out that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) won't lift a finger unless there are felony charges.

    Tancredo also represents pieces of Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Jefferson counties.

    In Arapahoe, officials normally don't contact ICE on routine traffic violations, according to Sheriff Grayson Robinson. In Douglas, Lt. Alan Stanton said only those taken into custody are referred to ICE. "When we come across an illegal, we notify ICE," said Elbert County Sheriff Bill Frangis. "And they say, 'Thanks for calling. We're not doing anything."'

    The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office will contact ICE for instructions, with usual results. "They may end up in jail or go on their way," said Lt. Jim Shires.

    There are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and the anonymity of large urban areas and the vastness of rural areas makes most of the United States a sanctuary, de facto as the lawyers like to say. Some cities, like San Francisco, have passed sanctuary laws; others simply don't let local police play immigration cop.

    One aim of sanctuary policies is to encourage illegal immigrants who are crime victims to come forward and testify without fear of deportation. And, big-city police already have their hands full fighting crime.

    The suspect in Young's murder, Raul Garcia-Gomez, a dishwasher at a restaurant partly owned by Mayor John Hickenlooper, had three traffic contacts with Denver police.


    After the killing, Tancredo fumed it was "unconscionable" that Garcia-Gomez "was let off scot-free" and criticized "Denver's failed and illegal sanctuary policy." Denver officers can't possibly verify the federal immigration status of the thousands of drivers ticketed each year. Anyway, who'd take custody?

    Tancredo cited Mayor Wellington Webb's 1998 Executive Order 116 to provide services to all residents and Order 119 authorizing acceptance of Mexican matricula consular identity cards. City Attorney Cole Finegan says that 116 was meant to prevent discriminating against legal immigrants. "There's no executive order, no ordinance, no regulation in the city of Denver that establishes a sanctuary policy," Finegan said.

    ICE doesn't have the bodies to bust everyone. The agency's focus is on immigrants arrested for serious felonies, businesses that hire illegal immigrants, smuggling groups, document-forgers and money-launderers.

    Police Chief W. Garrett Chamberlain of New Ipswich, N.H. (pop. 4,289), found that out the hard way when the feds refused to even question a vanload of undocumented immigrants. When he happened upon one Jose Mora Ramirez, who allegedly admitted being in the country illegally, Chamberlain charged him with trespass, a local infraction that carries a stiff fine but no jail time. Immigration activists are watching to see if that approach is valid or just melodramatic.

    Rather than local showboating, it's clear the U.S. needs to develop a rational immigration and guest-worker policy, verifiable immigrant identification, and realistic penalties for those who chronically employ illegal immigrants. That could well render the vagueries of "sanctuary" a non-issue.
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    Anti-immigration hotheads - led by local U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo - say the city is providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants. It's a laughable accusation. After all, what jurisdiction does not?
    Now we're teaching our kids that TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT!
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    Rather than local showboating, it's clear the U.S. needs to develop a rational immigration and guest-worker policy, verifiable immigrant identification, and realistic penalties for those who chronically employ illegal immigrants. That could well render the vagueries of "sanctuary" a non-issue.
    POLICY????
    We need to ENFORCE our existing laws.
    http://www.alipac.us Enforce immigration laws!

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    Dear Denver Post,

    I just read an editorial in your newspaper and wanted to thank you for covering this topic. I also wanted to share my views even though I do not live in Colorado.

    I’m opposed to illegal immigration, the presence of millions of illegal aliens in our midst, the affect of this phenomenon on American lives economically, the risk this presence has on American Citizens and our Guests with attacks, murders, rapes, gangs, mutilations, the cost of this presence on hospitals, schools, services and benefits.

    I’m also opposed to illegal immigration because of the political impact on the future of America allowing those who have agendas that wish to change the demographics of our population, the risk of illegal voters turning elections, the risk of agendas contrary to the best interest of the United States.

    The deflation of wages and salaries alone is enough to oppose illegal immigration and demand our government uphold the law, enforce US immigration law, prosecute lawbreakers, and control the borders to ensure this flood of aliens is stopped immediately.

    Harvard University prepared a study and discussed this study publicly on May 6 on the Lou Dobbs Tonight show. The study calculates that American Workers have silently lost over $200 Billion a year in deflated wages and salaries resulting from both excessive legal and this unprecedented illegal immigration, with $50 billion of this figure attributed to illegal immigration.

    These are staggering figures and given the “under the radar� process such that most can not be counted or documented, the cost is probably much higher than what is reported by the Harvard Study.

    There is no good reason to support illegal immigration, the presence of foreign citizens in our midst without our permission, the cost to society of this phenomenon or any other aspect.

    There is no honest argument for the proponents of illegal immigration or even excess legal immigration.

    There is no point to any of this nonsense threatening the well-being of our society and placing our Citizens in hardship and harm’s way.

    There is also the risk that our political structure as a nation may be threatened due to a weakening of the spirit of America which derives solely from American Citizens.

    There is the risk of overpopulation such that our society can not successfully sustain the population with adequate jobs at livable wages and salaries.

    If illegal immigration isn’t stopped now…immediately, the future of our nation and all who reside within will not have the American Dream in their Future; many only know it by name as it is now but it is still there for them to dream of and work toward, but this is fading fast and the course of the Future as presently set will be far different than any American would have ever approved and more sadly, it will not likely be American at all.

    Congressman Tancredo and others who see the future in the making are trying to save our country, and there is not much time.

    They deserve your support and the support of every American to turn this tide and end this insanity.

    Thank you for considering my opinion. I live in North Carolina

    Judy
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    http://www.denverpost.com/writeforus

    This is the link to the denverpost "write for us" letters to the forum.

    I suggest everyone write their thoughts and send them to the Denver Post so they know how the rest of the country feels about the courageous Tom Tancredo and others working to end this nonsense.

    Ken Salazar, a US Senator from Colorado, is one of the co-sponsors of the McCain Kennedy bill.

    Denver needs to hear from US!!

    Let them have it!
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