| Local Law Enforcement may cooperate with Immigration EnforcementIn a March 22, 2005 ruling, in Muehler v Mena, in unanimous decision from a Court known for its 5-4 splits, the United States Supreme Court essentially said that asking about immigration status during a lawful police contact (or, by implication, any lawful contact) was as fundamental a question as asking for name, address and date of birth. Indeed, the Court made clear that no predicate "independent reasonable cause' need exist to inquire into immigration status. It is the Law of the Land. Calling a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals “faulty,” the Supreme Court held that “mere police questioning [regarding one’s immigration status] does not constitute a seizure.” The Court continued its landmark ruling on this issue by stating that “the officers did not need reasonable suspicion to ask Mena for her name, date of birth, or immigration status.”...If there were even a hint that merely asking about immigration status is discriminatory (as claimed by proponents of the proposed Ordinance), then you might expect to have had at least one dissenter in that decision: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Justice Ginsberg was general counsel of the ACLU from 1973 to 1980 and sat on its National Board of Directors from 1974 to 1980. Justice Ginsberg's joining the entire court in this decision speaks volumes about its judicial wisdom and legal common sense.Congress expressly intended for local law enforcement to act in cases in which officers have reason to believe that an individual is in the country illegally, even though immigration law enforcement is not their primary responsibility. In 1996, Congress passed and President Clinton signed legislation that protects individual officers who act to enforce federal immigration laws, even if their departments have non-cooperation policies |
| Just wondering what some of you municiple patrol officers do when you come across an illegal alien while working. Now lets say that the alien has done NOTHING that you can arrest them for. |
| Originally Posted by Wolfman  Have him prune your apple tree, trim up the hedges and fix the loose shingles on the garden shed?? |
| Originally Posted by sulldog6 Had this last week. had an abandon MV in the road. when waiting for the tow the op showed. Ran him (Washington state license - yah ok) & his name popped for Illegal alien. |
| Originally Posted by sulldog6 Had this last week. had an abandon MV in the road. when waiting for the tow the op showed. Ran him (Washington state license - yah ok) & his name popped for Illegal alien. Had control confirm and call ICE. The Boston office (ICE) supervisor called me to confirm and I took him in at thier request. They (ICE) sent my dept an ICE detainer and Suffolk County picked him up in the morning. All went nice and smooth and I work in on of the most flaming liberal city's in the commonwealth (sanctuary city). |
| Originally Posted by Loyal some cultures of our American minorities could learn from the manners and hard work ethics of many of the illegals, but I'm glad to see them deported - too bad they can't take some troublemaking parasites back with them.. |
| Originally Posted by 94c America is the only country in the world where the poor people are fat. |
| Originally Posted by 94c America is the only country in the world where the poor people are fat. |
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