Tuesday, November 15, 2016

LA Police Chief Says City Will Not Help Deport Illegal Aliens

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The states do not set immigration law. They must be made to comply with it, or lose federal funding.

Via LA Times:


Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that he has no plans to change the LAPD’s stance on immigration enforcement, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to toughen federal immigration laws and deport millions of people upon taking office.

For decades, the LAPD has distanced itself from federal immigration policies. The LAPD prohibits officers from initiating contact with someone solely to determine whether he or she is in the country legally, mandated by a special order signed by then-chief Daryl Gates in 1979. During Beck’s tenure as chief, the department stopped turning over people arrested for low-level crimes to federal agents for deportation and moved away from honoring federal requests to detain inmates who might be deportable past their jail terms.

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The states do not set immigration law. They must be made to comply with it, or lose federal funding.  

The states do not over ride Federal law. They must be made to comply with it, or lose federal funding. 

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 Thank You Zip and LA Times.

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