Dozens of police departments are seeking expanded powers to check peoples immigration status

Source: Think Progress

Dozens of local police departments are reportedly checking the immigration status of people they arrest as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, according to a Reuters investigation through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Since Trump’s inauguration in January, 29 police departments have joined a federal program that grants local law enforcement authorities the authority to question and to detain suspected undocumented immigrants and turn them over to federal authorities for potential deportation proceedings. An additional 38 jurisdictions told Reuters that they had already applied or were “potentially interested” in joining the program, known as 287(g). The number of interested jurisdictions was not previously reported, according to the publication.

According to Reuters’ analysis, the police departments that joined or expressed interest in joining oversee small populations, “typically fewer than 100,000 residents, with small immigrant populations.” Police departments in places like New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA — which have large populations and large foreign-born populations — have thus far limited federal cooperation and promised to defy Trump’s executive orders to increase the number of detentions and deportations of immigrant populations.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/police-departments-crackdown-immigration-b2c9a7a9dfc4/

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Hell just start small and then go fucking big.........................that's the logic, fuck due process, no Miranda rights, no ability to call an attorney...........just look at the malignant freak that just got a pardon from the sexual predator