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Old 10-19-2011, 05:28 PM
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Default D.C. Mayor Orders Police Not to Check Immigration Statuses, Even in Arrests

This is such an insult to the citizens of this country, word can not describe it. Shameful.

D.C. Mayor Orders Police Not to Check Immigration Statuses, Even in Arrests


The nation's capital has officially become the latest safe haven for illegal immigrants.

District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray on Wednesday signed an executive order instructing police officers not to question people about their immigration status -- even people who are arrested on other matters -- unless immigration status is directly related to a criminal investigation.
"This executive order ensures public safety by ensuring that our police resources are deployed wisely and our immigrant communities feel safe cooperating with those who ar

"The district is home to thousands of immigrants," he added. "If they are afraid to cooperate with authorities on criminal investigations because they fear it might endanger their presence in the United States or the presence of a loved one, then it endangers their public safety and that of our entire city."
Although district officials say the order only confirms a longstanding policy, critics still blasted the move.

"This is an abomination," said Corey Stewart, the Republican chairman-at-large of Prince William County of Virginia, which is about 25 miles south of D.C. Stewart's county has sued the Department of Homeland Security twice, seeking information on 4,000 illegal immigrants that the county has arrested and turned over to Homeland Security for deportation.

"This is the capital of the United States," Stewart told FoxNews.com, "and to have the nation's capital as a sanctuary city where essentially federal law is not going to be enforced sends all the wrong messages -- not just in the United States but around the world."

The term "sanctuary city" is used to describe places where local officials refuse to enforce federal immigration laws and undocumented workers are free to seek jobs, housing or local government services without fear of deportation unless targeted by federal agencies.

Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Paul Quander said the order does not mean the district is opting out of a mandatory federal program called Secure Communities, which directs local agencies to share fingerprints collected from people in local jails with the Department of Homeland Security. The program is expected to be in place nationwide by 2013.

But Stewart noted Secure Communities is only relevant once people are arrested and jailed.

"So the fact they they're going to comply with Secure Communities is of little consequence."

In signing the order, Gray said he wanted to clarify that the local police in district are not in the business of enforcing federal immigration laws.


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Old 10-19-2011, 05:51 PM
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This is such an insult to the citizens of this country, word can not describe it. Shameful.

D.C. Mayor Orders Police Not to Check Immigration Statuses, Even in Arrests


The nation's capital has officially become the latest safe haven for illegal immigrants.

District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray on Wednesday signed an executive order instructing police officers not to question people about their immigration status -- even people who are arrested on other matters -- unless immigration status is directly related to a criminal investigation.
"This executive order ensures public safety by ensuring that our police resources are deployed wisely and our immigrant communities feel safe cooperating with those who ar

"The district is home to thousands of immigrants," he added. "If they are afraid to cooperate with authorities on criminal investigations because they fear it might endanger their presence in the United States or the presence of a loved one, then it endangers their public safety and that of our entire city."
Although district officials say the order only confirms a longstanding policy, critics still blasted the move.

"This is an abomination," said Corey Stewart, the Republican chairman-at-large of Prince William County of Virginia, which is about 25 miles south of D.C. Stewart's county has sued the Department of Homeland Security twice, seeking information on 4,000 illegal immigrants that the county has arrested and turned over to Homeland Security for deportation.

"This is the capital of the United States," Stewart told FoxNews.com, "and to have the nation's capital as a sanctuary city where essentially federal law is not going to be enforced sends all the wrong messages -- not just in the United States but around the world."

The term "sanctuary city" is used to describe places where local officials refuse to enforce federal immigration laws and undocumented workers are free to seek jobs, housing or local government services without fear of deportation unless targeted by federal agencies.

Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Paul Quander said the order does not mean the district is opting out of a mandatory federal program called Secure Communities, which directs local agencies to share fingerprints collected from people in local jails with the Department of Homeland Security. The program is expected to be in place nationwide by 2013.

But Stewart noted Secure Communities is only relevant once people are arrested and jailed.

"So the fact they they're going to comply with Secure Communities is of little consequence."

In signing the order, Gray said he wanted to clarify that the local police in district are not in the business of enforcing federal immigration laws.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...#ixzz1bHTdkT28
I've never understood why a police chief would allow a mayor to interfere with police actions or why a mayor even has the power to order the judicial system around. Seems more like a dictatorial sytem than a democracy or a republic. Sheriff Arpiao doesn't take that BS, although he is elected. But hell; what's to prevent a mayor from telling a police chief not to investigate the mayors campaign contributors or relatives? Seems like any police chief who followed a mayors orders like that is patently corrupt
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Old 10-20-2011, 01:30 PM
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D.C. to Illegal Immigrants: Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell – Don’t Worry
The post 9/11 world dictates that there are very few public places in Washington, D.C. where lawfully abiding residents and commuters are not discretely monitored, politely questioned, or upon entering buildings, physically searched. But while we accept scrutiny in order to enhance public safety, illegal aliens -- those who have broken U.S. laws and whose unknown motives may deserve the most scrutiny -- enjoy the least, thanks to a longstanding sanctuary policy reinforced this week.
Letting the powerful illegal alien lobbies know that he’s looking out for their best interests, Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has signed an executive order formalizing the existing “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” policy which prohibits police from inquiring about the immigration status of people they arrest or reporting that status to federal authorities.
The mayor claims that D.C. police are not in the business of enforcing federal immigration laws. Does that mean his officers won’t pursue bank robbers or kidnappers if they come in contact with perpetrators of crimes typically handled by federal agencies?
If any city in America has a history of working closely with their federal partners, it’s Washington, D.C. The sanctuary policy is not about jurisdiction, it’s about defying immigration enforcement with great fanfare to whip up political support with a growing Hispanic community.
Police are authorized and have a responsibility to enforce all laws, unless of course they’re specifically told by their local jurisdiction not to. Asking about immigration status after lawful conduct and reasonable suspicion doesn’t transform any police officer into an ICE agent, it simply allows that officer to conduct a basic precept of law enforcement -- don’t catch and release lawbreakers and jeopardize public safety.
Tonight, somewhere in Washington, D.C., an officer will probably encounter a speeding vehicle and begin a lawful traffic stop asking for license, registration and proof of insurance -- a universal verification process that is the same for everyone. And that vehicle might be loaded with 9 people who speak no English, have no driver’s licenses, no vehicle registration, no auto insurance, no social security numbers and maybe only Mexican consular cards or Gold’s Gym Cards. At that point common sense might suggest that asking about immigration status is warranted. But Mayor Gray thinks that D.C. residents will be better off if the officer ignores the obvious and just says “have a nice day” or preferably, ’que tenga un buen días.”
And the residents of Washington, D.C. -- sharing their space already with 35,000 illegal aliens – won’t be having a nice day.
Sanctuary city policies not only let the existing illegal aliens know they have no worries, but are also welcome mats to thousands more. Mayor Gray’s job is to allocate limited community resources to legal residents, not advertise his city as a safe haven and encourage thousands of additional illegal aliens to come in and drain finite services.
Washington, D.C. needs true sanctuary for law-abiding citizens protecting them from the lawbreakers and from the politicians who promote those policies.
While the rest of the country appears to be moving from a sanctuary mentality to a fix-it mentality, the nation’s capital remains dug in, a pocket of resistance and Mayor Gray seems oblivious to the cost and impact his actions have on health care, safety, lowered education, incarceration and quality of life. Sanctuary cities are dangerous, costly, and counter-productive to reducing illegal immigration.
President Andrew Johnson may have had it right when he described Washington, D.C. as, “12 square miles bordered by reality."

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Old 10-20-2011, 01:32 PM
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Scandal-Plagued D.C. Mayor Gives Illegal Aliens Sanctuary
As the perfect complement to the Obama stealth amnesty plan that’s spared thousands from deportation, the nation’s capital has officially become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
The District of Columbia’s scandal-plagued mayor, Vincent Gray, signed an executive order this week banning police and other city agencies from asking people about their immigration status. The order also guarantees that local law enforcement officials will not detain illegal aliens, report them to federal agencies or even make them available for federal immigration interviews without a court order.
Gray, a veteran D.C. councilman who has been embroiled in a series of corruption scandals throughout his political career, claims his new order actually ensures public safety by assuring that police resources are deployed wisely and that immigrant communities feel safe cooperating with cops.
“The District is home to thousands of immigrants,” Vincent said in a statement announcing the new sanctuary measure. “If they are afraid to cooperate with authorities on criminal investigations because they fear it might endanger their presence in the United States or the presence of a loved one, then it endangers their public safety and that of our entire city.”
Vincent, who once headed the District’s Department of Human Services, has been embroiled in a variety of controversies over the years. A few months ago he hired Bill Clinton’s sex-scandal lawyer to fend off accusations that he paid a mayoral candidate to stay in the race and trash then-Mayor Adrian Fenty, who he replaced this year.
Federal authorities began investigating Gray after a disgruntled staffer exposed a seedy cash-for-campaigning scheme, according to a local newspaper that cites attorneys and law enforcement sources associated with the case. The fired employee (Sulaimon Brown) says members of Gray’s mayoral campaign gave him envelopes stuffed with cash and money orders to stay in the race and maintain a verbal assault on Fenty.
Before that, when Vincent served as D.C. council chairman, he got busted using official stationery to solicit donations for the Democratic Party and for using a politically-connected contractor to renovate his house. Gray used official council stationary to solicit a $20,000 contribution from a cable company to help pay for Democratic Party activities, in violation of measures forbidding taxpayer resources from being used for political reasons or to raise cash for a particular party.
As council chair Gray also had a mega developer that does strictly large commercial projects renovate his house. The company has a $300 million real estate contract in an area that Gray represents and initially the then-councilman denied any work had been done on his 2,800-square-foot home. He only came clean after a reporter dug around and gathered evidence of the shady arrangement.
After becoming mayor in January Gray came under fire for hiring an army of senior staffers with lucrative salaries while the city suffers through a painful $400 million budget shortfall. Among Gray’s highly-paid employees are the son of his chief of staff and the daughter of a close adviser.
Used with permission of Judicial Watch.
http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/...ens-sanctuary/
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