Local cops ice new law
A comprehensive report in The Salt Lake Tribune predicts that local communities will blow off the Legislature's latest immigration enforcement measure. It seems cops aren't excited about being cross-deputized as federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Most, like Draper Police Chief Mac Connole, argue Senate Bill 81 would undermine law enforcement overall.With the economy the way it is, everyone is just scrimping to make sure we take care of our citizens. To reach out and do what the federal government is supposed to do is just beyond us right now.
Even Ogden Police Chief Jon Greiner, right, who as a state senator voted for the new law, is balking on cross-deputization.
Adam Leffler, president of the anti-illegal immigration group Save Utah, sees the cops as blatantly shirking their duty to enforce the law:Opting out sends the message that if there's a loophole, we're going to take it.
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Even Ogden Police Chief Jon Greiner, right, who as a state senator voted for the new law, is balking on cross-deputization.
Why in the fuck would you vote for a law you're not going to follow?
What an indicator of the stupidity of the people that are in charge.
Yay. I love how cops are leveraging their power to fight this absurd and bigoted law. You go, boys and girls in blue!
It's not absurd or bigoted to enforce the law.
It's is absurd, and soooo Utahn, to not fund the added work load, which seems to be law enforcement's primary beef, or one of them, anyway.
I proud to see Utah's police recognize the flaws the law and decline to expose their state, counties, and cities to civil liability and enact statutory racial profiling.
It's good to see the law enforcement professional ignore the knee-jerk reactionaries in the legislature. ("There are too many brown people in Utah. Something must be done. But make it an unfunded law.")
But you have to ask why Chief Greiner voted for the law if he knew it was flawed.
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