Should local police enforce federal immigration laws?
I read this one through along with the posted answers. The sections that you used give me this impression. 1. An illegal was released from jail to immigration authorities a week after her arrest of being involved in a domestic assault situation. 2. Civil rights advocates claim her rights were violated and want an end to arrests of immigrants by local police. 3. Mrs. Cole was held longer than a week before local police notified the proper immigration authorities. 4. Mrs. Cole was released to B.P. agents before a petition could be filed by ACLU on her behalf for violations of her “constitutional” rights. So because she is in fact an illegal (since the age of 15) it is then acceptable to say she has no rights within the United States. Reading the article one will note that Mrs. Cole was a witness to a domestic assault call. She other than renting them a room, was not said to be a part of the assault neither victim or aggressor. She played the part of translator, the article does not say i