Family Security Matters » Publications » Will Janet Napolitano Arrest an Illegal Alien for Any Reason?

Family Security Matters » Publications » Will Janet Napolitano Arrest an Illegal Alien for Any Reason?: "The Department of Homeland Security, under the direction of Secretary Janet Napolitano, recently announced that it will modify a highly successful program that allows local police officers to enforce federal immigration law. Apparently the program was becoming too successful and something had to be done to stop it, pronto.

It seems that civil liberties and illegal alien advocacy groups don’t like illegals being arrested for immigration violations when they commit only minor offenses such as urinating in public and speeding. Immigration law-trained police officers, who encounter someone drunk in an alley relieving himself or a speeder, use their federally provided training to determine if the guy is here illegally. Officers take these people into custody and turn them over to immigration authorities for deportation. So what’s the problem?

The problem, as seen by Secretary Napolitano, is that these advocacy groups have thrown down the race card alleging that police officers are using the dreaded “racial profiling” technique to arrest these people. This is absurd, but she bowed to their demands and has given police departments
90 days’ notice to accept new restrictions on who can be arrested."