(11-17-2016 06:12 PM)FIUFan Wrote: Let's see which areas harbour illegal immigrants with a felony record. How many of those types are there?
But how do you really codify a police force to question persons they come across to prove citizenship. I mean are they supposed to roll up to everbody and ask 'vear r ur papers'? Who's really going to enforce this?
The real problem for these 'illegals' is incorporating into American life (getting a loan, using gov't services, etc.) or getting stopped in the course of routine police work, then they've got a problem.
I've been saying this now for months, if better than a year or more.
We're NOT gonna go stopping random people on the sidewalk cause they "look" like a this or that. Nor randomly kicking in doors Janet Reno style.
BUT, if/when these people DO come in contact with "the system", be it applying for welfare, showing up to the DMV, or pulling over the el camino for a tail light out or whatever, if they're here illegally, they get reported.
We then have ICE or some other appropriate department look into their background, record, work history (if any) etc. If they're criminals, especially felons, out they go. Gangbangers and anyone violent,. out they go.
If they have no gainful employment? out they go. We could check into the family situation, but by and large if the entire family has to go, then so be it. If they are otherwise "clean" as in record, decent work history and whatever else, they get an expedited hearing, as in weeks, not months or years and they can get some sort of probationary or temporary status.
If some of them voluntarily turn themselves in and they check out, then they get to move to the front of THAT line. We need to know who is here and how many.
We need to do a MUCH better job of getting people from other areas of the world their due process (used lightly) as well. Not letting them all in willy-nilly, but those with compelling reasons, family and other stuff need to at least get an answer. It can be nearly a decade for some to be sitting/waiting in Canada or where ever just waiting to do things the right way. That's ridiculous too.