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Originally Posted by samurai007
First, you'll be glad to know that " solely" is gone. That is another one of the changes they made, as I alluded to before. So that should settle that for you, right?
As for why AZ is asking for Federal Training, it's because the Federal govt has been training local law enforcement to arrest illegal aliens since 1996. It's called the 287 (g) program, and for 14 years it has worked rather successfully in 71 law enforcement agencies in 26 states. ICE has trained and certified more than 1,130 state and local officers to enforce immigration law. Since January 2006, the 287(g) program is credited with identifying more than 160,000 potentially removable aliens – mostly at local jails.
You see, this is something you won't hear about on the mainstream media... Local law enforcement in more than half the states are already enforcing immigration laws, so claims that state and local law enforcement can't do it, it's unconstitutional, are rather silly because they've already been doing it for 14 years. So Arizona is asking for the standard ICE training that it gives to all the 287 (g) officers.
Section 287g
Section 287(g): State and Local Immigration Enforcement Efforts Are Working | The Heritage Foundation |
So if race is not a qualifier for identifying an illegal alien, what is? When the judge asks the cop "What prompted you to have reasonable suspicions that the suspect was not here legally?" then how is the officer going to answer?
$10,000,000 for 15,000 officers comes out to $666.66 PER OFFICER to be trained how to enforce one state law. If one trainer can train 30 cops in a classroom over 10 hours how to enforce this law, that trainer would be paid $2000 an hour. I wonder if they are hiring.