COMMON SENSE ANSWER TO THE ACLU’S IMMIGRATION
RIGHTS PROJECT (IRP) TALKING POINTS DOCUMENT FROM JANUARY 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, we are beset by a group of people who
believe every person on planet Earth have the God given right to come to our
country at their own discretion and leisure.
Whether just to better their lot in life, escape persecution, or any
other reason they may conjure, our Liberal friends think that
Chester C. Hale
Texan by birth, Georgian by choice, American by the grace of God
Local Police
Enforcement of Immigration Laws
Several
communities across the country are experimenting with using local police forces
as immigration agents. In addition to being contrary to federal law, this
endangers public safety.
[Many, not several, have instituted, not experimented, part of the
Federal Immigration law known as 287(g) which allows police forces in City,
County and State levels to undergo proper training and become certified to
assist in the apprehension, detention and deportation through ICE. This is Federal Law and therefore cannot be
considered contrary to it.]
General Statement
·
Police should
not be in the business of enforcing immigration laws. Enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws
should be left to the federal government and to the Federal government alone.
[The Federal government
does not have sufficient resources to handle the massive illegal alien issue we
have in this country. By extension
through the 287(g) program, local police are specifically trained to act on the
behalf of the Federal government as it relates to these illegal immigrants. So
the enforcement is being handled by the Federal government.]
Always
describe how police enforcement of immigration laws endangers public safety for
everyone.
·
Immigrants’
trust in local law enforcement is destroyed when police act as immigration
agents. Without assurances that they will not be subject to an immigration
investigation, detention, and possible deportation, many immigrants will not
come forward with vital information about crimes.
[Lets start
this by saying that only ILLEGAL immigrants are worried about reporting
crimes. That being said, if there were
no illegal immigrants here, they would not be subject to crimes against them
nor would they be committing crimes against US Citizens or LEGAL immigrants
therefore PUBLIC SAFETY IS IN DANGER BECAUSE OF THEIR PRESENCE. If we were to remove every ILLEGAL immigrant,
PUBLIC SAFETY WOULD BE VASTLY IMPROVED FOR EVERYONE!]
·
Everyone’s
safety, including
[To the first sentence, I refer you to the bullet point
above. To the second sentence, Police
depend on whomever they can talk with to gather information about crimes. If, as the ACLU and the Immigration Rights
Project contend, ILLEGAL immigrants (undocumented in their vocabulary)
Assert
that local police enforcement of immigration laws will lead to widespread
racial profiling.
·
Local police
enforcement of immigration law would give way to rampant racial profiling where
people who look or sound foreign would be stopped or asked for proof of legal
status. In this country, we value
fairness and equality. There’s nothing
fair about police pulling people over for driving while brown or with an
accent.
[This supposes that all police are
unprofessional and cannot be trained to properly enforce the requirements of
287(g). Of course, there is a valid
argument to the idea that police may be more inclined to ask for proof of
citizenship from people that look or sound foreign than from those that do
not. The police also are more inclined
to give field sobriety tests to people who look or sound intoxicated than those
that do not. I have travelled to foreign
countries where I have been asked for my passport. I found no offense in it whatsoever; of
course, I was there LEGALLY.
·
Do we really
want our police to be spending resource going after people because of what they
look or sound like, instead of going after real criminals?
[In a word, YES! ILLEGAL immigrants are real criminals. Not only have they violated the law just by
coming here, most also defraud the Citizens and LEGAL immigrants, by applying
for and receiving handouts from the Government. Estimates vary depending on the
group doing the study but in general terms, after consideration of the taxes
paid by working ILLEGAL immigrants, the net fiscal cost of ILLEGAL immigrants
in this country is over $10,000,000,000 ($10 Billion) per year.
]
Assert
that immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government.
·
Asking police to
become experts in distinguishing valid forms of identification from invalid
forms is an unrealistic expectation.
Even immigration lawyers and federal agents can find it difficult to
make determinations related ti immigration status.
[An above argument states that
enforcement should be left up to the federal government only. This statement must be meant to imply that
local police aren’t smart enough to be trained like federal officers. This is not even a good argument but if it is
brought up, ask the fool making it why then they are opposed to an annually
renewed National biometric ID card for all immigrants prior to achieving
citizenship. This solution would make it
simple for LEGAL immigrants to prove their status in our country. Then they could trust the police, and report
crimes, verify that they are legal to work, and all of the other things that we
want our LEGAL immigrant population to do.]
Point
out that police resources are stretched thin already.
·
Asking local and
state law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws will strain
their already overburdened resources and will require substantial resource
commitments of time, training and administrative costs
that would further burden severely under-staffed police departments. This is why many local police departments and
sheriffs oppose immigration enforcement initiatives and have taken public
positions against them.
[The job of our public safety officials
is to keep the public safe by enforcing the law. Checking immigration status as a part of a
traffic stop, a domestic violence report, a vandalism or theft report, does not
add undue burden. It is been proven over
and over, that where tough immigration policies and strict use of 287(g) laws
are enacted, the population of ILLEGAL immigrants goes down as does the cost to
the general public. Public safety is enhanced
and the burden on society is decreased.]
One
of the topics I seldom hear discussed is the plight of the children born to
poor, uneducated, ILLEGAL, immigrants.
Section 1 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution states
that, “All persons born or naturalized in the
I
believe, as I am certain many of you do, that education is the foundation to
success. Children are all too often a
product of their up-bringing. We have
generational dependence on the government.
Allowing unfettered immigration enslaves these people to a life of
ignorance and fates most of their children to be cast into the pit of
government dependence for which the rest of us are burdened.
Immigration
is a contentious, emotional issue for most people. While it is easy to let passions flair when
confronted by the pro-amnesty crowd, I beseech you to stay calm, show you are
in control of your emotions, your views and your facts and use your information
and education to put down this movement in our county.
Repsectfully,