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Subject: Re: ILLEGALS GET CA DRIVERS LICENSES?
10/31/01
Hi Glenn;
I am still working on getting police officers to arrest illegal aliens - if we can't do it in the current climate, we never will.....maybe you could pass the following letter on to your troops so that they might start hitting their legislators with the same repeated messages ...Local cops to arrest illegals...and here's how to do it :
Here is what I have been sending to many in government - folks can use the information to help create emails or letters;
DEAR _________,
I am in total agreement with your assessment that the United States needs greater control of the borders and internal security. Local law enforcement can add hundreds of thousands of officers to help protect our communities and the safety of our nation.
I am asking that you please revisit the below listed law and see if you can make it work for the nation rather than just be an unused, useless document. Attorney General Reno failed to complete the administrative regulations so the law could be implemented and it is not being used by anyone in the entire country.
Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 SEC. 133. Acceptance of State Services to carry our immigration enforcement. Section 287 (8 USC 1357) (g)(1).. Notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31 USC, the Attorney General may enter into a written agreement with a State, or any political subdivision of a State, pursuant to which an officer or employee of the State or subdivision, who is determined by the Attorney General to be qualified to perform a function of an immigration officer in relation to the investigation, apprehension or detention of aliens in the United States...
This section allows local police officers to do the job of an immigration officer. What must be done is that subsection (g)(1) must be amended to read that any local or state agency with a law enforcement function accepting federal tax dollars are MANDATED to cooperate with the Attorney General. This is the ONLY way that we will be able to have any internal security in the United States. It is impossible for a few thousand INS agents to handle the 12 or 13 million illegal aliens in the country. However, with hundreds of thousands of police officers throughout the country being able to do that job, we can find and turn over hundreds of thousands of illegals each year.
The law has already been vetted through the Federal Courts and was upheld on appeal by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of "U.S. v. Ontoniel-Vasquez-Alvarez. In the words of the court, "Federal law encourages local police to arrest illegal aliens." I am sending you a copy of the case so that you can read it and have it handy.
To make any such plan feasible, besides the political and funding aspects, the following is needed:
1. Police would need minimal to moderate training in INS documentation and status determinations - we already know how to do law enforcement so that aspect of training is not required. 2. Police would need access to the INS computer system to do name checks.this should be available through the nationwide NCIC computer system which almost every police department already has access to. 3. Transportation will be key.the INS will have to reinstate the use of buses to go to all of the agencies that have picked up illegals on a daily basis. This used to be done and it was one way to make it easier for local communities to turn over illegals to the INS for detention and processing
I am hopeful that this plan of action, or some modification of it, meets with your approval and support during this national time of crisis.
I will also be contacting and setting up appointments with the local Congressional delegation in Orange County, Senator Feinstein as well as contacting the Office of Homeland Security in Washington D.C.
Thank you for your time;
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And thanks again Glenn for all the hard work you put into trying to protect our nation from the "silent" invasion that is in many ways more dangerous than any bomb or bioterrorism.
Name of the writer, a veteran police officer, withheld by AmericanPatrol.com