"Get a warrant"? NO!
Posted by E Van Staaveren on Thu, 08/17/2017
Why should ICE officers have to go to a court and request a warrant to take custody of an illegal alien who’s being released from a local jail?
There should be seamless cooperation and communication between the two branches of law enforcement, local and federal, on immigration matters, as there usually is in federal laws on other subjects.
Unfortunately, there are powerful political groups in the U.S. resisting enforcement of immigration law generally, who think in globalist terms, discounting the importance of nationhood and citizenship. The entire Democratic Party, as well as an influential faction of the Republican Party, seem to have this view. Honest polls show that U.S. citizens disagree.
In a look back at how immigration law enforcement has been eroded, Dan Cadman, retired INS / ICE official with thirty years of government experience, asks:
“…Is it unreasonable to ask police and correctional officials to hold alien criminals they have in their custody long enough for immigration agents to respond and arrest them, given that there are hundreds of thousands of federal, state, and local law enforcement and correctional officers serving in thousands of organizations, but only about 1,300 immigration agents for the entire country?”
The attempt to force ICE agents to go to a court and obtain a warrant before detaining an illegal alien upon the alien’s release from jail is a deliberate attempt to impede ICE’s work and help illegal aliens remain comfortably in the U.S.
As Oregon’s top US Attorney, Billy J. Williams, pointed out, how is ICE even to know the alien is in jail if that information is not communicated to ICE?
“This requirement [for a court warrant] is inherently unreasonable as illegal aliens are frequently held for only a matter of hours. Furthermore, it is nearly impossible to obtain a federal criminal arrest warrant without basic identifying information.
“Simply put, Oregon's sanctuary status declaration directly contravenes federal immigration law and threatens public safety.”
All local law enforcement and jails should regularly communicate with ICE when local enforcement encounters an illegal alien, and be dependable in alerting ICE punctually about release dates from jails. Oregon is a part of the U.S.; it derives multiple advantages from being part of this nation, and there is no excuse for not cooperating in national law enforcement.
Cooperation with ICE does not turn local police into ICE agents. The time taken simply to communicate information to ICE would be minimal, and the results huge in greater safety for the public and better control of illegal immigration. Illegal alien advocates’ claim that local police cooperation with ICE has a chilling effect on crime reporting is spurious.
The toleration of illegal immigration is extremely harmful to citizens; it undermines respect for law generally, allows unlimited global competition for jobs, overloads our social service and educational facilities, triggers rapid population growth that endangers the health of the natural environment, and causes many other significant problems.
Help ICE do its job!
