Department of Homeland Security

North Carolina, Mitt Romney and Illegal Immigration

Submitted by George Pence on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 5:48pm.


Recently Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts entered into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security that allows Massachusetts State Police to arrest immigrants who are in the state illegally. Whenever in the course of their routine law enforcement duties they stop someone whose immigration status they consider questionable, they are obliged to call the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and then detain that person if federal officials request it.

While it is said that the intended target of this new policy is people arrested for violent crime, the same procedures could also be employed with a motorist who is stopped for running a stop sign. Obviously civil libertarians are in an uproar because they are concerned that this new law will lead to racial profiling and give people in minority communities one less reason to trust the police.

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