Immigration enforcement is federal responsibility |battlecreekenquirer.com: "Keeping our communities safe is the top priority for local law enforcement officers, and they risk their lives every day to help protect us and our families.
We should not add to their responsibilities by making them quasi-immigration officials. Yet a bill introduced in the Michigan House last month essentially would require police officers to determine the immigration status of any person they stop who could 'reasonably be suspected of being unlawfully present in the United States.'"
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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