Axeman |
01-18-2019 05:56 PM |
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Originally Posted by Rochard
(Post 22399468)
This is not true at all. In fact, I've stated before on GFY that I am for a wall.
I am also dead set against illegal immigration. If you are caught in the United States illegally, you should be arrested. However, my local police department - which at any given moment has three or four officers on duty - cannot afford to spare police officers to handle federal crimes. Larger cities - such as Oakland, California, or San Francisco - shouldn't be required to devote 10% of it's budget and hundreds of officers to handle illegal immigration. These are federal issues, not to be handled by local law enforcement. This is why the FBI doesn't come to my hometown and hand out parking tickets - it's not their job.
What I don't want is a failed businessman and former game show host telling us he has a "one size fits all" solution that costs hundreds of billions of dollars that will not be effective. We don't need to be spending tens of billions of dollars in areas where there are few illegal crossing. This money would be much better spent where the problem is - near large population centers and ports of entry.
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your point about local police being charged with the job, is something I agree with fully. So when I read that, I get confused that you are against federal spending to lock down the border, so that the resources are not required by local police. Spend to get the illegal crossings down to a trickle with a wall, tunnel detection technology, better detection scanning at the ports of entry. Frees up ICE and border security officials and immigration judges to actual start making a difference. What is more efficient? Spend the money up front and at the source of the issue in a contained space, or have to have 100K federal ice officers chasing down everyone in all corners of the country? Pretty obvious to me which way is better, cheaper and more effective use of resources. But no doubt I agree that local police should not be tasked with trying to enforce federal offenses. Way too much strain on the local level.
Again, a moot point as the powers that be, don't want it to happen. They just give lip service that they do.
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