The Los Angeles Times got its hands on an internal email by the Department of Homeland Security that hints to the continuous practices of ethnic and racial profiling by law enforcement agencies against immigrants.
The email talks about two Honduran men, who waited for a ride after their construction job, and were later apprehended allegedly for loitering, the LA Times writes. The men “were detained by Louisiana police in May on loitering charges because they looked Latino, according to a Sept. 21 Homeland Security email that was released inadvertently and obtained by the Los Angeles Times,” the article says.
From the LA Times:
“The only basis for the arrest seems to have been to give Border Patrol an opportunity to run an immigration investigation,” wrote Megan H. Mack, head of the Homeland Security Department’s civil rights office, in her report to Sarah Saldaña, Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, and other ICE officials. “This is not a practice the department wishes to endorse or facilitate.”
Mack said the men posed no threat and should be released.
The case highlights the concern among some senior Homeland Security leaders that local police are making arrests based on appearance and then calling immigration agents to check on a detainee’s status.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials chose not to follow Mack’s recommendation and say they are still planning to deport the two men, Jose Adan Fugon-Cano and Gustavo Barahona-Sanchez. Because both men had been removed from the U.S. before, they are still priorities for deportation under the department’s guidelines, said ICE spokesman Bryan D. Cox.
The men are being held at the Alexandria Transportation Center in Louisiana.
According to the men’s lawyers, the case shows how the agency is still using arrests by local police to round up low-level offenders in the country illegally, in spite of a new plan to target only priority cases. Lawyers say the reports of these internal investigations rarely come to light.
News of the email come after the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona released yesterday a detailed report on Border Patrol abuse at checkpoints. Turns out that of more than 140 reports of said abuse, there was merely one disciplinary action.
This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2015.
It’s just too bad the LA Times couldn’t get their hands on Hillary’s emails. I’ll bet they didn’t try, did they?
So the only threat is that it 2 Hondurans here ILLEGALLY! Good on you ICE…Who else do you profile? Perhaps Grivala and the Author— an open border, tax us all to pay for them supporter. When will we wake up that the $$$ has to come from someone, US never THEM!
Illegals, and the liberals that support them, are literally sucking the life out of America. Throw their asses out.
Consider this situation, do you like it? Don’t you like it? Either way, if you want justice and freedom AND safety in America – feel the Bern!
What the officers are doing is LEGAL.
What the Hispanics are doing is NOT LEGAL!
81% of illegals are Hispanic so they PROFILE THEMSELVES:
This is what the SCOTUS says about cultural profiling: Decisions by both the United States Supreme Court and the Arizona Supreme Court have identified “ethnic factors” as a relevant consideration in enforcement of immigration laws, and have further determined that the U.S. Constitution allows race to be considered in immigration enforcement.; State v. Graciano, 653 P.2d 683, 687 n.7 (Ariz. 1982) (citing State v. Becerra, 534 P.2d 743 (1975)
Brignoni-Ponce, the Supreme Court held that the officer can consider the occupant’s apparent ancestry in making his assessment.
United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 886-87 (1975)
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ANYONE without proper ID can be deported without a hearing before a judge:
THIS IS ILLEGAL:
On February 13th, 2013 Chris Crane, president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council states under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee “Immigration agents are regularly prohibited from enforcing United States Immigration LAW. According to NEW POLICY, immigration agents can no longer arrest persons solely for entering the United States illegally. Oficials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have exposed agents to danger from gang members in detention centers, and that they threatened to discipline agents for detaining illegal immigrants encountered on the street.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNiVaLGai…
This is the law they want them to ignore: The removal of an alien who is inadmissible because the individual does not possess valid entry documents or is inadmissible for fraud or misrepresentation of material fact (INA § 235(b)(1)(B)(iii)). The alien may be removed without a hearing before an immigration court.” pg 2, Box 1, right side.
Note. This is the SECOND TIME these two individuals have been arrested for illegally entering America.
That is where the debate ends. They are REPEAT OFFENDERS.
No human may be illegal (Whatever nonsense that means) but a human may be A CONVICTED FELON who does not adhere to the laws of their guest country.
They may be non-violent offenders, but they are criminals engaging in criminal behavior.
A nation without laws has no justice. A nation without borders is not a nation.
Have some civic pride and put your country first, not Honduras. You want to help these individuals, go to their country and make it better.
“Consider this situation, do you like it? Don’t you like it? Either way, if you want justice and freedom AND safety in America – feel the Bern!”
LOL, right. Did Bernie state he was going to build a WALL?? Nope. Trump 2016. The only candidate serious about illegal immigration.