In an open letter to law enforcement leaders, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked sheriffs in California to cease harmful practices that target illegal alien communities.
The letter comes at a time when California is burdened with nearly $30 billion budget deficits and a new Rasmussen Poll that states 67 percent of Americans want states to tackle the illegal alien problem plaguing the country.
The ACLU contends apprehending illegal aliens costs local agencies money they no longer have to combat those residing in California unlawfully.
“Most law enforcement officers do not want to double as federal immigration agents. They know that it discourages witnesses and victims of crime from coming forward and ultimately harms public safety for everyone,” said report co-author and ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) Staff Attorney Julia Harumi Mass. “We want to partner with law enforcement agencies and share what we have learned: that sheriffs and police chiefs across California can adopt practices that protect everyone and make wise use of taxpayer dollars.”
However the ACLU report and letter fail to acknowledge that a study by Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) illustrated California spends roughly $20 billion a year in services for illegal aliens in the Golden State.
Illegal immigration activists point out that if local, state and federal law enforcement did their job and enforced the nation’s immigration laws there would be more money for departments who are committed to keeping the peace.
The ACLU, however, sees things much differently.
“The federal government is not playing fair with local police and sheriffs. Most don't want to engage in the dirty work of immigration enforcement or take on its steep costs,” report author Amalia Greenberg Delgado explained. “At a time of shrinking police departments' staff and budgets, we hope California's law enforcement leadership will review unnecessarily costly practices and rebuild trust with communities.”
The ACLU report went on to stipulate that “the legal framework for current police practices in immigrant communities – from vehicle checkpoints and impoundments to prolonged detention of immigrants in local jails, among others (was a harsh reality).” The report details the financial and human costs of these practices, including personal stories.
Rule of Law cities in California cite the safety issues that come along with those driving without drivers' licenses or car insurance. The Escondido Police Department is one of those cities who perform various and random check points (of all residents) in an effort to curtail their unusually high number of car accidents. “It works,” says Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher.
Nevertheless, the ACLU believes that immigrant-rich communities think Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is lurking in the shadows at these drivers’ license check points. Maher says that's not true.
"People fear that when the sheriff is called, ICE is not far behind. This is a huge problem especially in regards to domestic violence," added Mass. "If victims are reluctant to call local police because they are afraid of becoming ensnared in the ICE web, then batterers enjoy impunity. That's bad for everyone."
To alleviate those fears, Chief Maher makes an effort to reach out to his community by attending community gatherings and explaining he is not calling ICE unnecessarily. “My department is trying to rid the city of criminals,” Maher said through an interpreter. “Don’t you want me to remove the rapists, child molesters and murders from your neighborhood?”
As the recession continues to linger, taxpayers are looking at the cold-hard facts that illegal immigration cost them money and are voicing their opinions through various polls like Rasmussen. The results are in- two out of three likely voters want the immigration laws enforced- period.
Read the ACLU Report Costs & Consequences - ACLU Special Report.pdf
Read the ACLU Cost-Saving Proposals ACLU Cost-Saving Proposals.pdf
Read the Rasmussen Poll - A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of Likely U.S. Voters – two-out-of-three – think a state should have the right to enforce immigration laws if it believes the federal government is not enforcing them. Just 22% disagree and say states should not have that right. (To see survey question wording, click here).
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Comments
Let's put an end to this madness once and for all. Arrest all illegal aliens, jail them for 30 days, and then deport them all.
Shut down the ACLU. It is an organized crime syndicate.
arrest you and deport you to England how about that!!!!
I agree with anonymous as for as the response given by the next writer, why don't you understand that breaking the law applies to everybody, every race who is guilty. Every illegal alien is guilty of unlawful entry into this country not to mention the slime corruption brought with them ie murderers, rapists, child molesters,you name it illegals bring it. Many legal Mexican Hispanics are wonderful people who did it the right way why can't the rest of you. As long as jerks like yourself spew garbage we will never enforce our immigration laws. What makes you think that just because the Catholic church is a corrupt mafia and they want illegal migration that makes it right, wrong. fix the flipping country that you are fleeing from get the hell out of here until you come in the right way. there is no blessings coming to anyone who breaks Gods laws or the laws of the land. There were laws back in biblical day. Where there are no laws there will be chaos CHAOS is what you have in Mexico and what you have brought to America you screw up everything you touch where will you go when America looks like Mexico?.
“Most law enforcement officers do not want to double as federal immigration agents..."
Say what? Then these so-called law enforcement officers need to become instantly unemployed.
The loathsome ACLU needs to be shut down for good and its officers arrested on felony charges of aiding and abetting illegal alien parasites.
They should also be charged with sedition, for helping a foreign country take over parts of the USA. Same goes for all the pols who won't enforce our immigration laws.
MAP: USA Rule of Law and Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States.
Why isn't Obama suing these sanctuary cities, counties and states immigration policies?
URL: http://bit.ly/cPYVZk
Article 1 Section 10 of the US Constitution says, [PARAPHRASED]
"every state in the union, shall, without the Consent of Congress, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, or engage in War, when actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."
Article II, section 3, of the US Constitution says, [PARAPHRASED] "The President, shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
Article 4 Section 4 of the US Constitution says, [PARAPHRASED] "every state in the union, is responsible to every state in the union, for securing our union against invasion."
You must know by now that the Obama Puppet works for
the Elite. They want the money illegal aliens spend stealing our jobs and spending our money.
you don[t know much about the real world and how it works. You keep reading that constitution .... ex. All men are created = hahahaha that was a joke, but was no joke for the real true AMERICANS........ NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN Don{t you think wow about that for the art blah blah
The Alien Civil Liberties Union have just become Pro-Illegal Thugs that are against the CITIZENS of ALL RACES in the United States.
The ACLU knows how lazy Law Enforcement officers are!
This will work for the lazy police!
The ACLU has cost American taxpayers billions with their frivilous communistic legal filings, generally against the public good. In our free society, they have flourished while creating a fear of their existence. If there was ever a case where the "people" need to rise up and take action to crush this conglomerate of filth, this is it.
go back to England NATIVE AMERICANS said the same bye go on the mayflower since England payed for two Spanish ship to port your For Fathers to the new world
Hello, Send ICE to deport ALL Illegal Aliens, end of Story..
ICE will be calling you since you are an immigrant yeah originally from England how that
"This is a huge problem especially in regards to domestic violence," added Mass. "If victims are reluctant to call local police because they are afraid of becoming ensnared in the ICE web, then batterers enjoy impunity."
Now wait a minute, the ACLU supports "multiculturalism" right?
And this activity is part of the legal culture where the illegals come from, so why is the ACLU suddenly worried about them practicing their culture?
They force us to accept these foreign cultures when it comes to illegals not learning English, theft, and government corruption. Why doesn't the ACLU accept spousal discipline the same way they force us to accept these other foreign cultural traits?
Hey ACLU these "immigrants" are just practicing their culture, and since you preach multiculturalism learn to accept it. You also need to just accept the American culture of law enforcement and the deportation of foreign criminals who are stealing from and killing Americans.
Well know the NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS said the same, but you immigrants from England should go don[t you think ??? may should be good sailing all so called Americans......Did you respect the NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE THEIR LAWS How dare someone like you even think of speaking hello fare is fare you go I[ll still live in one of the 5 states ORIGINALLY MEXICAN TERRITORY . You can go to England ????
All the ACLU is doing is protecting the Conservative Patriotic American Businessman's source of Low Cost Labor!
Want to blame someone for the illegal issue? Start with the Chamber of Commerce and Farm Bureau, they are the ones blocking meaningful immigration reform
All you fugging illegals get the fug outta my america and go back to your drug cartels and legal brothels where your daughters turn tricks for hombres and the gringos. Just say no to sanctuary cities in the USA . Round 'em all up and send them back from whence they came ...or move em all to Maricopa county tent cities why jail em and let the taxpaying americans pay for their upkeep . Sheriff Joe for president !!!
You are an ignorant and a waste of my time but i will educate you ........ you are the imm........... immigrant from England the only ones that lived here were the native american indians and mexicans so who do you thing is the............$%%&/&/(&$%
The ACLU is losing its clout at the same time the unions are. The American people are finally waking up! It took anti-Invasion talk show hosts to get it going, then 9/11, then the Tea Party movement and now the anti-union movement. I predict that the ACLU will be shut down under the next Administration as an anti-America, seditious org.
Call -OUR- Congress @ 866 220 0044
DEMAND -OUR- immigration laws be ENFORCED !
E-verify for -ALL- jobs & GOV`t. programs !
287g->NATIONWIDE TO FIND & DEPORT -ALL- illegals !
visit- www.americanpatrol.com 0r www.capsweb.org
thanks
GOD BLESS THE U.S. !!!
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Roger Nash Baldwin, one of the founders of the ACLU said, "I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
They're just holding true to their founders' vision.
The racist fellow crying out against Englishman must be a victim of the current California public school system. He seems to have forgotten that is was an Italian that got the Europeans (Spaniards) to start sailing to the New World.
When did we lose our common sense? Our Government, has allowed the invasion of 30 million criminals in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution. they force American tax payers to pay Billions to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders children, free medical care,massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens WAKE UP PEOPLE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9IGKRzdzZ8&feature=player_embedded
.youtube.com/watch?v=tsH8xvjTAlo
.youtube.com/watch?v=Btj6IeOFkis&feature=player_embedded
.immigrationcounters.com/
.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp
.immigrationshumancost.org/
.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty580.htm
.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ
http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-8...
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Every Non-representative including obama and holder should be IMPEACHED! for not upholding the oath of office they swore to defend the Constitution! If these clowns were to do their job, this would all be a Moot point!
Anchors and their criminal parents go, period, and cut the phony tears, you knew you were breaking the law when you crossed the border.
shut down any business hiring illegal labor and confiscate all property belonging to the owner. Property will be sold at auction and the proceeds to pay for the massive deportation. Oh and owners go to jail.
Got a better idea? Lets hear it!
stevo1 how soon do you think we can get this started I am in favor of all of your ideas coming to fruition. It will take the American people to put a stop to this insanity Now that we have 30 years of illegal migration that none of the presidents had a right to grant we must be overturned now the legal and illegals that are here through any form of amnesty must be included. Every living president who stood by along with the congress and allowed this country to be invaded in many cases encouraged aided and abetted the invasion must be tried for treason and sent to a lifetime of prison. This movement must begin NOW.
I would hope that Law Enforcement would read the demands of the ACLU and then go out and make mass arrests of illegals just to prove that NO group like ACLU is going to dictate how the law is going to be enforced. ACLU should be supporting the REAL AMERICAN people and not those who are here illegally and are criminals for entering this country without documentation. Is high time that deportations get ramped up and mass deportations start where entire communities get swept of illegals and their anchor brats. NO AMNISTY, NO DREAM ACTS, NO FREE MEDICAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES
To stop all immigration before it swamps this country, join 1.1 million Americans at www.NumbersUSA.org and get active. We either stop this invasion today, or we will suffer an added 75 million immigrants in 25 years. Not pretty. FW
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