May 19, 2005

"Border police initiative might face roadblocks"

From this:

Assemblyman Ray Haynes' proposal to create a state immigration police force to help patrol the border and enforce immigration laws statewide could meet resistance from the federal government and be disputed in the courts...

Haynes, R-Temecula, cites a 1996 provision of a law that allows state and local agencies to negotiate agreements with the federal government to enforce immigration laws. But federal officials [specifically, Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement] say the law has never been applied to create officers strictly devoted to immigration, and they have no intention of doing so...

One of the legal experts cited is from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The related group American Immigration Law Foundation was mentioned in this post.

See also the site for the California Border Police.

Posted to California at May 19, 2005 10:56 PM

Comments

There's no reason why regular police or sheriffs cannot use some form of 'just cause' to question the immigration status of people they come across -- they just have to steel themselves to endure scarewords and scarephrases like racism and racial profiling. This may do enough so that some new special force isn't needed, and also make people thinking about crossing illegally think about it again.

Posted by: eh at May 20, 2005 02:11 AM

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