So the answer is “Yes. We will still deport crime victims that are immigrants.”
“Should have never come here illegally and they wouldn’t be a victim!” - Trump, tomorrow probably.
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Yeah those central valley folks are surely conflicted. On the one hand, they are hardcore conservatives, and on the other hand, they need the slave labor. What to do, what to do.
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I got the 3rd degree once near Yuma (on the California-Arizona border) from a snot-nosed border patrol kid.
If you live near the southern border with Mexico, you learn to be on the lookout for the border patrol, because they drive recklessly when they are on the scent, or perhaps just in the hope of finding some excitement. And being bullies, they often travel in packs.
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I bet. I was caught in a checkpoint once in southern Colorado. They waived us through finally but damn we were held up for a long time.
This is getting out of control and I keep reading that it’s been escalating. goddamn it
I’m an old lady Southern Californian and this is not a new thing. And actually there have been fewer full stops for race checks in recent years because of traffic flow considerations. It used to be impossible to go north of San Diego and Imperial counties without having to stop for a race check. I think that they have better profiling methods now. I’ve been driving through the Temecula stop fairly often lately, and while they don’t usually stop the traffic, they have full staffing and frequently there’s a car pulled over just north of the station.
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Wow - I had no idea. My family was from California but there’s no one left so I don’t have the ties there anymore that would cause me to visit or to be aware of this.
I live in Texas and New Mexico, both border states of course but I don’t live near the border at all in either state. I haven’t heard there are problems with checkpoints in south Texas, but I don’t know. They could have them set up.
In other words, this guy is a slimeball!
“We’re not looking to arrest a victim of crime,” Homan said. “We’re looking to arrest the bad guy. Right? Now, let me make this clear. Is there a population of illegal aliens that are off the table? I’m not saying that.”
You are not “saying that” but that’s what your actions are doing. Idiot.
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Under current law ICE can operate checkpoints for immigration enforcement anywhere within 100 miles of an “external boundary” of the US. It wasn’t the state border that was the trigger but rather the proximity to the US-Mexico border.
At these checkpoints ICE can stop you and ask you questions. They are not supposed to detain you or search your vehicle unless they have probable cause to believe you have broken an immigration law. Noncompliance with questioning is not probable cause for detention. Of course, cops being cops they will exceed their mandate if you piss them off.
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I listened to the presser this afternoon. It seemed to me that he was bringing every question back to horrific crimes that have been committed, somewhere, by someone, in some jurisdiction. He kept calling them “heinous,” but pronounced it “hay-knee-us.” The whole thing seemed like an opportunity for the guy to praise the President rather than to provide any actual information. In other words, same old, same old.
Hyperbole is ineffective when one’s point gets lost in it.
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That’s would be 12 points lower than in 2016, if you count only the legal votes.
And how many business owners have you locked up?
So the “Bad Hombres” thing was bullshit too.
“”“Now, let me make this clear. Is there a population of illegal aliens that are off the table? I’m not saying that.”""
I didn’t grow up speaking English but I’m fairly certain that “let me make this clear” and “I’m not saying that” are mutually exclusive and don’t belong in the same run of sentences.
Promised, delivered. All that is missing is the speed. Hopefully, the speed of deportations will be increasing. Next, the visa overstays will be getting attention, like the Irish plumber last week.
Change that white to black and you start a riot. Why? How does the word white make it profound but black would make it rank bigotry?
There has been a check-stop on 77 between Brownsville and Corpus Christi for at least 15 yrs. I’ve been going down there. They have large permanent buildings etc. I read an article talking about how people in Brownsville can’t take their sick children to specialists in San Antonio, etc.
And in what alternative universe is the deportation of NON-CRIMINALS an act to be proud of?