Jersey changes immigration policy due to shooting

[terry78]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_re_us/schoolyard_killings_immigration

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The fact that this guy was released on bail twice is much more telling about the justice system than the fact that he's an illegal immigrant and one of arrests was for the sexual assault of a child?!?!

 

[Milkman95]

Put the walls up, I'm serious. This immigration issue is out of hand.

 

[Steve Rogers]

TRENTON, N.J. - After a review driven by three brutal slayings, the state attorney general on Wednesday ordered New Jersey law enforcers to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving is found to be an illegal immigrant.

Wait a minute...they never did that before? That seems strange.

 

[EdRyder]

Jersey is a "Sanctuary City"
A 'Sanctuary City' is one whose leaders do not permit police or municipal employees to inquire about the immigration status of those within the city limits, or for such employees to cooperate with federal immigration officials under most circumstances.

 

[Steve Rogers]

Jersey is a "Sanctuary City"
A 'Sanctuary City' is one whose leaders do not permit police or municipal employees to inquire about the immigration status of those within the city limits, or for such employees to cooperate with federal immigration officials under most circumstances.

But I don't get that. I mean, the word illegal is in the phrase illegal immigrant. Is it not the duty of law enforcment to um...enforce the law? If being here illegally is in fact illegal, then to me it is surprising that they never enforced that until now.