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Homeland Security suspends immigration agreements with Arizona police - Washington Times
So we have a President that is eliminating the ability of Arizona to enforce the provision the Supreme Court left in place 2(b).
The question will then become how will law enforcement in Arizona react? They are invested in enforcing immigration to the extent they can do so. Ive got to wonder what the reaction will be in the White House if they lose the Health Care Act challenge.
The Obama administration said Monday it is suspending existing agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws, and said it has issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline many of the calls reporting illegal immigrants that the Homeland Security Department may get from Arizona police.
Administration officials, speaking on condition they not be named, told reporters they expect to see an increase in the number of calls they get from Arizona police — but that won’t change President Obama’s decision to limit whom the government actually tries to detain and deport.
“We will not be issuing detainers on individuals unless they clearly meet our defined priorities,” one official said in a telephone briefing.
On Monday the administration officials also said they are ending the seven 287(g) task force agreements with Arizona law enforcement officials, which proactively had granted some local police the powers to enforce immigration laws.
The task forces, named for the section of law that allows them, have proved popular among many localities but have been a political headache for the Obama administration, with immigrant-rights groups saying they led to abuses.
On Monday the administration officials said they had concluded the seven agreements they had signed with various departments in Arizona weren’t working and took the Supreme Court’s ruling as a chance to scrap them.
So we have a President that is eliminating the ability of Arizona to enforce the provision the Supreme Court left in place 2(b).
The question will then become how will law enforcement in Arizona react? They are invested in enforcing immigration to the extent they can do so. Ive got to wonder what the reaction will be in the White House if they lose the Health Care Act challenge.