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Originally Posted by 8pt-buck
I agree. Illegals are a real life Fiscal Burden. On top of that, we have many Sanctuary Cities where local law enforcement does not cooperate with ICE.
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Local law enforcement cannot afford to cooperate with ICE. This should not be difficult to understand. ICE doesn't come to my hometown to hand out speeding tickets or respond to traffic accidents. It's not their job. If ICE had to respond to traffic accidents and medical calls in my city plus every other city in the country, they would be completely overwhelmed.
This is how law enforcement works. Local police handle local issues, federal agents handle issues involving federal law.
I live in a town of fifty thousand people. At any given moment we have two to four police officers on duty. Our police department is so small we cannot even hold someone; We have to bring them to the county lock up. My local police department does not have the manpower to handle immigration problems.
It's the same with larger cities. Larger cities with hundreds of thousands or millions of citizens cannot have 10% or 20% of their police officers handling immigration issues. This costs larger cities tens of millions of dollars.
I want such people arrested as quickly as possible and removed from our country. However, it is not up to our local police department to handle immigration issues. If our federal government wants do this locally, assigned ICE officers to work with local police departments. Assign two full time ICE agents to my hometown, and any time my local PD comes across someone who here is illegally they will detain them on the side of the road until ICE comes to arrest them. The reason why this doesn't happen is because it is just way too expensive.
I am also for a wall too - just not $24 billion worth. Identify the areas where there are the most crossings, and build walls in these areas. We should be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, not twenty-five billion dollars.