News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Bills would stop police queries about immigration

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau
El Paso TimesArticle Launched:12/15/2006 12:00:00 AM MST AUSTIN


Local law enforcement officers would be prevented from asking people about their immigration status or nationality and from making stops based on those characteristics under a bill an El Paso senator filed Thursday.

The measure was one of a three-part package of bills by state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh meant to prevent state and local officials from enforcing federal immigration laws.

The senator's bills follow a recent El Paso Times report that showed Texas border sheriffs were using federal grant money meant to fight drugs and violent crime to enforce federal immigration law.

State and local officials insisted Operation Linebacker, for which Gov. Rick Perry has granted more than $10 million for border sheriffs, was designed to prevent crime, not to target undocumented immigrants.

But the Times found that border sheriffs participating in the operation reported undocumented immigrants to U.S. Border Patrol seven times more often than they arrested criminals.

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