NEWS ITEM: The Department of Homeland Security released the first ever report on law enforcement agencies that are potentially “endangering Americans” by failing to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers and named multiple jurisdictions in California.*
EDITORIAL: This is “funny” for two reasons: the first being the fact that illegal immigrants – the obvious infraction aside – commit statistically less crime than legal residents. The second is what Los Angeles has proven for decades: that if it widely understood that police do not make inquiries about one’s legal status, illegal immigrants witnessing crimes will more readily come forward to assist police in criminal investigations. Moreover, if police did assist I.C.E, criminals could more easily exploit/harm illegal immigrants, knowing full well their victims will not go to the police for fear of deportation. Or to put it all another way: we might want to start calling it The Department of Homeland Insecurity. Ladies and gentlemen, the Trump Administration.
*Source: 3/21/2017 Los Angeles Times
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