Police Say Sanctuary Policy Protects Criminals
"Almost any Los Angeles police officer will say that some of the most cutthroat criminals here are illegal immigrants. And yet, the police complain that they cannot use immigration 
status to apprehend a convicted criminal who was ordered deported," the New York Times writes. "Known as a sanctuary policy, the police rules here prohibit officers from inquiring about someone's immigration status with the federal authorities unless that person is being charged with a crime . . . But the policy also provides a safe harbor for criminals." According to the paper, " Nationally, 80,000 to 100,000 illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes walk freely on the streets, federal officials said. But the problem appears most acute in Los Angeles County, where 30,000 illegal immigrant criminals live among the nearly 2 million illegal immigrants. Several other cities, including Chicago, Houston and New York, have sanctuary policies, though not always as broad as the one in Los Angeles. Officials here say they are working on language that rethinks Special Order 40, which prohibits officers from initiating discussion "to discover the alien status of a person."
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The NYT reporter allowed one major false statement about the NY "sanctuary" policy to go unchallenged. Open borders professional agitator Humphreys of the NY Immigrant Coalition says that the gag order policy for New York police and city employees is "violated routinely."
By federal law, it is illegal for "any official" including city and state officials, even judges, to prohibit or restrict the right of any person, including city personnel, from maintaining data regarding the immigration status of any person, and communicating with federal immigration authorities regarding that information. Local and state government personnel who personally support enforcement of federal immigration law have federal whistleblower protection for their jobs and careers. See 8 USC 1373 and 8 USC 1644.
In 1998, FAIR successfuly defended a local government welfare agency employee in California who set up a meeting with a client whom she had learned was a previously deported illegal alien, and arranged for a Border Patrol agent to catch and detain the alien after he arrived at her office.
If you are a local or state government employee who has been threatened, or retaliated against in any way because you have contacted federal immigration authorities, please email your story to the staff attorney at FAIR, who will try to help you protect you rights.
This iswith out question one (Only One) of the most stupid laws threr is.
How do you protect and serve the citizens of this
country who are legally residence of the United States.
We have just had an experience with someone
who was smuggled into this country and commited
frud on one of the larget Banks here and was living but a few doors from us.
He fortunatly was apprenhend and is being tried.
