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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has signed up 55 state and local law enforcement agencies to help enforce immigration laws, including an Arizona country sheriff under investigation for racial profiling, the Homeland Security Department announced Friday.
Another 12 agreements have been approved and are awaiting local or state approval.
The administration had previously suspended the program, which critics say was mismanaged and allowed racial profiling and discrimination. Before it was suspended, there had been 66 local and state agencies participating.
The continuation of the "287(g) program" with some changes is reflective of the administration's approach to immigration enforcement thus far. The Homeland Security Department has reworked some Bush administration policies and programs by adding more oversight and trying to prevent civil rights abuses. But they have tread carefully to avoid appearing to weaken or abandon enforcement.
"We are not trying to suggest if you are here unlawfully, or here unlawfully and committing minor crimes, you are not going to be subject to removal from the U.S.," Morton said.
This should make the pro-illegals choke on their breakfast cereal this morning. They thought Obama and HS were going to stop immigration enforcement but they were dead wrong.
Advocacy Groups Assail Immigration Enforcement Program
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Critics focused their fire at the continuing participation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose Phoenix-based agency has produced the largest number of arrests under the federal program and who is under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged civil rights violations. DHS terminated Maricopa deputies' authority to investigate federal immigration violators in the community, but allowed them to continue checking for illegal immigrants already in jail.
"Entering into any agreement with the Bull Connor of our generation extends legitimacy to a rogue cop dedicated to terrorizing Latino immigrants," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the advocacy group America's Voice, referencing the segregationist police official of 1960s Birmingham, Ala.
It disgusts me when Pro-Illegal activists start comparing the plight of Illegal Aliens to segregation, slavery, Japanese internment or even worse, the Holocaust..
Illegals CHOSE to come to the U.S. and if they are outraged with the conditions in the U.S., maybe relocating back to their country of origin and attempting to make changes there would be the prefered way to go about "CHANGE" rather than demonize American Taxpayers that have had their fill of supporting illegals and their anchor babies and only want to see the law enforced!
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Advocacy Groups Assail Immigration Enforcement Program
