LOCAL POLICE CAN AND SHOULD ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAW


THEY'RE TERRIFIED THAT ENFORCEMENT WILL WORK

By Heather Mac Donald · January 04, 2006 12:49 PM

The “no one is illegal� crowd once again showed its true colors last night, in a protest against Costa Mesa, California’s decision to allow its police officers to ask criminal suspects their immigration status.

According to the exceedingly modest policy, Costa Mesa officers will be allowed to question people arrested for serious crimes about their legal status in the country. Such an inquiry is the least that any law enforcement agency dedicated to public safety should engage in.

But the open border crowd doesn’t care a fig about the well-being of immigrant communities, which depends on ridding them of illegal criminals. Rather, many in the movement want simply to destroy America. Some of the signs held by the Costa Mesa protesters proclaimed the United States the property of Mexico and declared Americans interlopers in that property, reports the Los Angeles Times. It remains a mystery why people with such contempt for American law and legitimate authority should still be allowed, with negligible exceptions, to control the country’s immigration policy.

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