My Nephew is a Detective in Maryland and I can vouch for the fact that they are not allowed to do anything about illegal immigrants unless they are committing a crime and the illegals know this and just smirk at them.
Even if they were picked up before and turned over to ICE for some infraction and are back on the streets, just knowing they are illegal you still can't touch them.
Here is an article by Heather Mac Donald that I have kept that shows the frustration of the LAPD on Special Order 40 and how strong the sheer political power of the immigrant lobbies. Hopefully this will soon change.
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http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-394-illega ... crime+wave
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