Police Worry About Enforcing Immigration Laws
That’s literally what William Gillespie, executive director of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, is quoted as saying in this Strib article. That’s just one of the things that jumped out at me in the article.
William Gillespie, executive director of the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, said police worry they won’t get cooperation from immigrants if officers get involved in enforcing immigration law. “That trust level begins to break down between the community and the police,” he said.
That’s plain insane. Gillespie shouldn’t be worried about earning illegal immigrants’ trust. He should be worried about enforcing the law. I wouldn’t have believed that a law enforcement official could’ve said something like that if I hadn’t read it. Believe it or not, that’s only one of several things that startled me. Here’s another startling section of the article:
A Somali activist asked for faster reunification between legal residents of his community and their relatives. A leader of the Liberian community in Minnesota wondered if anything could be done to prevent an imminent deportation of Liberian immigrants. And a police leader stressed that cops don’t want to be enforcing immigration laws.
They were among about 300 people who attended a forum Saturday in Minneapolis on the latest attempts to overhaul immigration law to make it easier for people who entered the U.S. illegally to remain here.
I don’t know what family reunification for a “Somali activist” has to do with immigration reform. Perhaps it’s just the Strib trying to draw attention away from the visceral feelings that most voters have about the 12 to 20 million illegal Mexican immigrants. I’m betting that people are worried about the potential impact that “family reunification” would have if it’s offered to the 2 to 20 million illegal immigrants who fled Mexico.
Technorati Tags: Luis Gutierrez, Keith Ellison, Illegal Immigration, Law Enforcement, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 24th, 2007 at 10:27 am
I am a twelve year veteran of a Los Angeles police department and am appauled by the lack of respect for law enforcement shown by William Gillespie. Everyone one of us take an oath and in that oath it states “I will uphold the Constitution of the State of California and the Constitution of the United States.” Period. Recently, many chiefs in Southern California are ordering (either by policy or by fear) that no officer shall enforce immigration. These same chiefs took the same oath I did. Enforcing immigration is no harder than enforcing issurance laws, registration laws or penal code laws. Law enforcement officers just need the mandate to do so and it will be done. Trust me, thousands of officers are waiting for the word to do their job.
June 24th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Come over on a tourist visa with a pregnant wife who gives birth to a new US citizen, then refuse to leave when your visa expires. The Democrats want to prevent deportation of illegal parents of US citizens. The Somalis are Muslim. Imagine the opportunity for colonization if Muslim illegals can’t be deported.
June 24th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I was trying to join the LAPD and this issue, I felt, was going to be the single most frustrating problem to have to face. Not because of the impact it has out on the streets, but the politics at City Hall. When you have a mayor saying ridiculous things like “there are no illegal people,” and Special Order 40, how was I supposed to be able to do my job and protect th lives and property of the people paying my salary? That I was trying to swear to protect? Gillespie’s comments are positively absurd.
June 24th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Police across the country have to face decisions over risking their pensions, for which they’ve risked their lives daily to at least 20 years to keep us safe, by being accused of racist actions for enforcing the immigrant laws.
Satire is one weapon we can still use legallly. The story is, a patriot got a copy of the Secret Handbook for Illegal Immigrants in 1994, had it translated into English and tried to sell it over the baby web of the day. The Association of Illegals United hunted down every copy of the guidebook and destroyed them.
They got careless this year with the big push by the utterly clueless Bush and Rabid Kennedy, to forever change America’s landscape and overrun it with illegals.
Here are free sample pages of some pages of writing, ads by the Saudi Arabian Feminist Fund (”Take up the Veil!” and advice to terrorists that foresaw the 2001 attack on Washington, though the wrong target was suggested.
Read for free, laugh, please send on links to your email lists, but think about buying one book, or even, ten books at reduced prices to hand around to your friends.
This book does not savage illegal immigrants, but rather we weak and soft Americans who can’t even defend our own borders. Try having 20 million Americans immigrate illegaly to Mexico, Canada, Russia, China or Saudi Arabia.
Hah! You know what would happen. Yet liberal scum call anyone who opposes throwing out the 12 million (more like 30 milllion) illegals already here.
It’s taken as a given that it’s impossible — we built the iintercontinental railroad, settled the West despite hundreds of Indians attacked, built an economic superpower and defeated Japan and Germany at the same time, but we can’t figure out a way to deport 12 million illegals?
Well, I do have a practical plan that does not hunt down illlegals like fugitives from the chain gang but with dignity will convince them to return. The plan comes later.
First read a bit. Hope you laugh. Comments welcome.
http://conservativehumor.net/
June 24th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
How many would Jesus deport?