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March 25, 2008

New Jersey Police Double Illegal Alien Arrests

"Seven months after the state attorney general, Anne Milgram, ordered local police departments in New Jersey to question people they arrest for certain crimes about their immigration status and to report illegal immigrants to federal authorities, the rate of such referrals has nearly doubled. But immigrants and their advocates say that some people have been unfairly swept up in the dragnet because of overzealous enforcement or confusion over how Ms. Milgram’s directive was supposed to be implemented, creating a chilling effect on some immigrants’ relationships with the police," the New York Times reports. "The directive was announced last August amid outrage after a triple murder in which one of the suspects was an illegal immigrant who had been released on bail after previous arrests. It urged officers to inquire about citizenship and nationality when booking people for felonies or drunken driving."

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NOW, LET'S DOUBLE THE AMERICAN ORGANISED CRIME ILLEGAL ALIEN EMPLOYER ARRESTS TOO

Posted by: Softwarengineer on March 25, 2008 01:58 PM

It never fails. So what if legal people are questioned. If they are legal then they have nothing to worry about.

It is always the illegal who cry and moan - of course it's because they are being "picked on" - OK. So what? They don't belong here so they should be picked out and kicked out!

Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on March 25, 2008 02:51 PM

now if they could deport the MUSLIM terrorists in Paterson NJ, as well

Posted by: impeachbush on March 25, 2008 08:40 PM

We are slowly getting somewhere.

Posted by: Rey on March 25, 2008 09:50 PM

The NYT insinuates that being questioned is tantamount to being wrongly convicted. The unspoken truth here is that the legal immigrants who complain are 100% loyal to their 'ethnicity' and 100% disloyal the the United States of America and intend to ignore the rule of law to aid the illegal aliens.

Posted by: Bill Dexter on March 26, 2008 11:56 AM

Why am I supposed to care about the "chilling effect on some immigrants’ relationships with the police".

These people are here illegally, the only relationship they should be having with the police is getting arrested and deported period.

Brian

Posted by: Brian on March 26, 2008 02:34 PM