Utah Sheriff Says Locals Can Enforce Immigration
Laws
Sheriff Smith Airs Views in Civil Rights Commission Forum |
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Transcript
from Nov. 16 meeting.
Michael Martinez: So
if you believe that someone has committed the crime of being
in the country without documentation, your officers are told
they can arrests them.
Sheriff Smith: We are not telling them, we are allowing
them to do it and we are not correcting them. They understand
as we do, the
appellate was very clear in its decision. If you stop a person
for a speeding violation and through the course of your investigation
you determine that that person or someone in the vehicle for
that matter then you do have the authority [ to arrest them for
violation of immigration laws.]
 See
this November 5 item form the Deseret News |
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Phyllis Sears Gives Martinez a Civics Lesson |
| Community Forum: Impact of Immigration
and Demographic Changes in St. George, Utah and Washington County
Sheraton Four Points Hotel, St. George, Utah -- Friday, November
16, 2001 |
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Phyllis Sears (Resident of St. George, Utah)
A democratic republic only
functions when we all agree to have our representatives make
our laws and then we agree to live by those laws. And if we don't
like those laws then we go to congress and get them changed.
Otherwise, you have anarchy when you pick and chose which laws
your are going to enforce and which laws you are not.
Listen as Sears describes murder
by illegal alien in St. George |
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ST. GEORGE MAN TELLS "THE REST OF THE
STORY" |
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| MARTINEZ: "He says he represents
85% of the people in St. George, and we've just had a good example
of why we have to be here. " |
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Fred
Becker testifies before the Civil Rights Commission
"These meetings portray something
and I'm here to tell you something, especially the Latino community.
Because I truly believe I speak for 85% of the people in St.
George. We don't fear you. We don't hate you. We dislike you,
pretty much. Because we know most of the crime is committed by
Latinos. We know most of the drugs come from Mexico. We know
that my taxes pay for most of your expenses. And we don't like
it when you come here and tell us that we don't give enough.
Why should we have teachers teaching your kids English? Why not
Russian? What if a Bulgarian walked in and says "I need
an interpreter." What is this? "
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