Signs of things to come? Arizona police start asking for proof of citizenship
December 24, 2007
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After a Scottsdale police officer was killed by an illegal immigrant, the Scottsdale police department decided to start asking for proof of citizenship when they arrest someone and if they are illegal, they turn them over to the immigration authorities.
Police in suburban Scottsdale have begun routinely asking for proof of citizenship from every suspect they arrest and turning those who are in this country illegally over to federal immigration officials.
The procedure was started Oct. 15, a result of the September killing of Phoenix police officer Nick Erfle by an illegal immigrant, Erik Jovani Martinez.
Scottsdale police had arrested Martinez on a misdemeanor charge 16 months earlier but they released him then because they didn’t know he was an illegal immigrant who had been twice deported.
Erfle’s killing “caused us to look at what were asking suspects,” Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said. “If we arrest someone and then find that we called ICE (Customs and Immigration Enforcement) and they put a hold on them, then we know they have been deported and are back again.”
Martinez was later killed by police after he stole a car and took a hostage, authorities said.
Now police in the affluent suburb ask every suspect about their citizenship, have ICE agents pick up those who are in this country illegally, and keep a database of possible illegal immigrants in case they turn up again.
Well, I have one thing to say: It’s about time! I hope more municipalities will start doing this if the Feds or the authorities at the state level’s do nothing about the illegal immigration problem plaguing this country.
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I guess killing native americans and stealing their land was very legal. What a bunch of brainless individuals. I am here, come and get me if you can cause i am not going anywhere. I do not need any papers or any permission to be in this land, i do what i want, when i want and nobody is going to scare me with the passing of any law. I think this governament and the so called “americans” are going about this the wrong way, you dont want IRAQ to be in your backyard. Dont tell me you are going to start bombing every city and think that it is going to solve everything, i hope you learned something in Baghdad. I was there, remember? Ofcourse you dont, you just sacrifice lives, and you dont even care if its your mother as long as you are living confortable.
What a complete and total idiot you are yomama. I actually laughed out loud when I read your asinine response.
“Ignorance is bliss” was surely created in honor of you. LOL!