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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
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You are twisting the facts here.
From my point of view, anyone who is caught in the United States illegally should be arrested and deported. I do not care of they have a car, a house, a business, or children. The children should be deported too.
But you are missing two things here.
Local police should not be releasing people from custody to federal agents. A crime has been committed and this needs to be followed through on. If federal agents take custody of this person, those charges go unanswered. If federal agents want to arrest him afterwards, that's fine.
Then... Local police should not be involved in such matters. If a federal crime is committed, local police is not called in to arrest someone. Federal agents have to do that. (Local law enforcement might be asked to assist if needed.) The reason why is simple... My local police department has anywhere from 3 - 5 officers working at any given time. My local PD does not have the ability to detain people, and they are brought to the county jail. Without even discussing illegal immigration, this has a huge impact on the time of our local law enforcement. If we have three officers on duty and one of them has to transport someone to the county jail, we lose 33% of our police force for an hour (or longer). My local police department just cannot arrest one out of every four persons it comes into contact with because they are here illegally and breaking federal law. They just don't have the resources to do this.