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LAPD Sued Over Illegal Alien Issues
The headline on this made it sound like some civil rights group was suing the LA Police Department in order to protect illegal aliens. For a change, this is not the case. From BreitBart:
Illegal immigration opponents have sued the Los Angeles Police Department, taking aim at its long-standing policy of ignoring most suspects' immigration status.The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court seeks to force officers to inform federal immigration officials when illegal immigrants are arrested on drug charges.
The department prohibits officers from inquiring about the immigration status of suspects, a policy strongly supported by Police Chief William Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Currently, LAPD, and many other police departments across the country are not allowed to check a suspect's immigration status for strictly political reasons. The reasoning for this is that many mayors have taken it upon themselves to implement a policy that treats the illegal alien population as strictly a Federal problem. The end result of such policies is that we end up with illegal aliens filling our prison system for crimes far more serious than drug running.
Reading that a citizen group is working to force the LAPD to identify a suspect's immigration status is good to read about. I hope this develops into a nation-wide trend, as then we may be able to seriously curtail the illegal alien problem, as well as "take a bite out of crime."
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