Police Make No Arrests in First Day of Crackdown
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Prince William County police interviewed four people in its first day of a crackdown against illegal immigrants Monday, but found no violations of U.S. immigration laws and made no arrests, police said last night.
Police officers were directed for the first time to check the U.S. residency of suspected traffic violators and minor offenders in a plan that has attracted national attention for its breadth and scope as well as heightened immigrant alarm and anger.
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That can lead to beginning deportation proceedings or simply notifying federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials that a traffic violator without a driver’s license lives at a certain address.
Immigrants expressed outrage at the policy but expected the plan’s implementation to show its effect over a period of many months, rather than a few hours.
“I fear that one of my friends will be detained,” said Paula Perez, a Texas-born U.S. citizen who lives in Woodbridge and has seen many immigrants already leave the county. “One of my friends said she is not shopping, she is not going to movies, she is not going out to eat. Life has changed 360 degrees.”
While Deane requested video cameras in every police car to document interactions between officers and drivers to prepare for racial profiling accusations at a cost of $3 million in the upcoming fiscal year, the cameras have not been installed at perhaps the most contentious time of the policy’s existence.
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Email Dan Genz at dgenz@dcexaminer.com.
(Posted on March 5, 2008)
Comments
No arrests???? hummm that must mean the cops have NO GUTS….INFORCE THE LAW DO YOUR JOB PROTECT AMERICANS WHO CARES WHO THINKS WHAT OF THIS NATION…WE WANT JUSTICE FOR OUR OWN CITIZENS TO HELL WITH THE ILLEGALS…GET THEM THE HELL OUT OF THIS COUNTRY!!!
Posted by lydia at 7:46 PM on March 5
“Life has changed 360 degrees”?
Oh the intelligence!
Posted by 'Awakened' at 8:28 PM on March 5
“Life has changed 360 degrees.”
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I wonder if she knows what she said.
Posted by at 9:03 PM on March 5
Ha!! I, too, got a chuckle out of the “Life has changed 360 degrees” statement. Actually, does one laugh or cry at it?!
Posted by Jan L. at 9:29 PM on March 5
For the record, shouldn’t she have said, “life has changed 180 degrees?” 360 degrees is going back to the starting point—normal illegality.
Posted by Bobby at 10:07 PM on March 5
Well, looking at the whole quote, it is good news:
“One of my friends said she is not shopping, she is not going to movies, she is not going out to eat. . . . “
This means that “one of my friends” knows she is doing something wrong. Maybe the new lifestyle won’t be so appealing, and she’ll think about leaving.
Posted by Reader-1 at 10:27 PM on March 5
It’s easier to report that ‘no violations’ were found. It will look better when it is reported that this service is no longer needed.
I hope the ‘breadth and scope of the national attention’ strengthens and that the ‘heightened immigrant alarm and anger’ increases.
Posted by at 12:18 AM on March 6
“Prince William County police interviewed four people in its first day of a crackdown against illegal immigrants Monday, but found no violations of U.S. immigration laws and made no arrests, police said last night.” (Emphasis added.)
Then this police force needs to be replaced. For G-d’s sake, rent a pickup truck and drive through any home-improvement store’s parking lot!
Posted by Wild Eyed Charlie at 10:00 AM on March 6