Thread: TX:Houston Mayor asks feds for help w/ IA's

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A controversial debate is back in the spotlight with the shooting of a Houston police officer during a drug raid last week. Just two and a half years ago, Houston Police Officer Rodney Johnson was killed in his squad car. Both men were shot by violent criminals in this country illegally. Today the mayor and police chief detailed a potential big change in policy and a letter they wrote to the federal government.

Houston's mayor and police chief say they need help from the federal government to get convicted felons who are also illegal immigrants off the streets. These words came from Mayor White to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano in a letter pleading for help and proposing some changes to help get convicts who are in the country illegally deported.
"A local law enforcement agency -- under law we cannot deport people," explained Mayor White. "That is the job of the federal government."
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In a news conference downtown, Houston's mayor and police chief remembered HPD Officer Rodney Johnson, shot and killed by a Colombian national two and a half years ago. They also talked about Officer R.L. Salter. He is still in critical condition after an El Salvadoran national with a rap sheet that stretched through Angleton, Pearland and Houston shot him in the face last week. Other officers returned fire on Wilfido Alfaro, killing him.
"Alfaro has been arrested five times for possession and/or delivery of narcotics," said Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt. "He was arrested at least three times since his ordered volunteer departure from the country in March of 2001."
In his letter the mayor points out that the "lack of federal resources is simply unacceptable." His plan asks the government to:
Run the information on arrestees through a national database that is kept up to date
Give state and local law enforcement access to the database
Seamlessly transfer convicts who are illegal from local to federal authorities
Make the deportation status of convicts public record
Offer rewards for information leading to the arrest of deportees who have re-entered illegally
Deter those who do re-enter illegally, by perhaps deporting them again to what the mayor called a "very inconvenient location"
The mayor's letter acknowledges that most serious crimes in the US are committed by American citizens. But he urges Secretary Napolitano to not lose track of what homeland security really means.


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Letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

http://dig.abclocal.go.com/ktrk/DOC376.PDF

MR MAYOR--------- GO TO HELL.
its your problem because houston is a sanctuary city thanks to you
your police chief and those who came before you in the past 20 years.

Its ONE OF the reasons I MOVED FROM HOUSTON


** NO TAX MONEY TO SANCTUARY CITIES *****

It only matters to the Police chief and Mayor when it is a cop or wealthy person that gets clipped. Are their lives more valuable than the average citizens. I feel bad for the cops family, but maybe enough high profile deaths will cause some action!

Originally Posted by Havoc

Are their lives more valuable than the average citizens. I feel bad for the cops family, but maybe enough high profile deaths will cause some action!

apparently so

I feel bad for the families as well and hope when they sue the city they also name specific names of people from present mayor and police chief to all those who have held these positions for the last 20 years.

Of course, most crime is committed by Americans, because this is a job that some Americans will do. Don't need any more employment help from out-of-country.

Mayor White is the reason the city of Houston is getting their budget sued off by the widow of Officer Johnson.

He's just trying to cover his tail before the trial so he wont have to defend his existing sanctuary policies.

Dixie

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-149202.html
Immigrant who shot HPD officer was in U.S. illegally

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/09 ... ct_illegal
Short story with Video. Fox Affiliate Houston, channel 26

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/ ... db504.html
Story with video. CBS Affiliate Houston, channel 11

http://www.click2houston.com/video/18900965/index.html
Just Video, NBC Affiliate Houston, channel 2

ABC Affiliate Houston is original post, it has video as well
channel 13

Originally Posted by feduphispanic

"Alfaro has been arrested five times for possession and/or delivery of narcotics," said Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt. "He was arrested at least three times since his ordered volunteer departure from the country in March of 2001."

Three of those arrests were made after the deportation order. Did anyone in the HPD call ICE and remind them this fool should not be here? Or was HPD not allowed by orders of the Mayor to not ask the immigration status of idiots like this? This is what happens when sanctuary cities are build to harbor illegal aliens mayor Bill White. It's your fault this continues and you fault you police officers are put at this kind of risk.

In his letter the mayor points out that the "lack of federal resources is simply unacceptable." His plan asks the government to:
Run the information on arrestees through a national database that is kept up to date
Give state and local law enforcement access to the database
Seamlessly transfer convicts who are illegal from local to federal authorities
Make the deportation status of convicts public record

Makes me wonder how Fox news can find this information out yet HPD can't. Makes me also wonder why someone can be convicted 5 times on selling drug charges and they are not in prison.

Offer rewards for information leading to the arrest of deportees who have re-entered illegally

How about allowing your own police department to check the immigration status of those they pull over?

Deter those who do re-enter illegally, by perhaps deporting them again to what the mayor called a "very inconvenient location"

Like may be prison? I think that is what the law prescribes isn't it?

The mayor's letter acknowledges that most serious crimes in the US are committed by American citizens. But he urges Secretary Napolitano to not lose track of what homeland security really means.

Not only has Napolitano forgotten what homeland security means, Mayor Bill White and our entire government has too.

Originally Posted by bigtex

Originally Posted by feduphispanic

"Alfaro has been arrested five times for possession and/or delivery of narcotics," said Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt. "He was arrested at least three times since his ordered volunteer departure from the country in March of 2001."

Thress of those arrests were made after the deportation order. Did anyone in the HPD call ICE and remind them this fool should not be here? Or was HPD not allowed by orders of the Mayor to not ask the immigration status of idiots like this? This is what happens when sanctuary cities are build to harbor illegal aliens mayor Bill White. It's your fault this continues and you fault you police officers are put at this kind of risk.

HOUSTON IS A SANCTUARY CITY.

has been since the early 90s. its one reason i LEFT