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.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

DPS will help spot illegal crossers

Enforcement, not roundups, is goal, Napolitano vows
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.01.2007

PHOENIX — Arizona is sending some Department of Public Safety officers for special training to enforce immigration laws. But not to round up those who are not in this country legally, according to Gov. Janet Napolitano.

The DPS will be sending a letter today to Immigration and Customs Enforcement asking for 100 of its 1,200 sworn officers to receive the special training necessary for local police to enforce federal laws, something they are not normally permitted to do.

The five-week session is designed to help officers decide who is in this country in violation of federal immigration laws.

The officers, once certified, can start the deportation process on those whom they detain.

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