....shouldn't Police officers have more important things to do rather than bring in Jorge because he doesn't have his papers?
Ahhh the old "more important things to do" argument I always hear from folks.
What would those more important things to do be?
Catch Murderers and Rapists of course!
But.... wait a minute.... thats not how it works.
Patrol Officers respond and do initial investigation on a felony. The rest is done by detectives, whose job it is to do the advanced investigation.
The vast majority of all rapes occur between two people who know each other, and usually indoors, usually with a phone call later from a sobbing female to 911 which sparks the investigation. Are police supposed to have a "spidey sense tingling" and go unlawfully kicking in doors to private residences and catching rapists? I think not.
What Patrol Officers deal with more often than not are dependant upon the area they work in. In inner city areas its responding to citizen calls for service, and working the problem areas of violent crime, keeping a presence. In suburban areas, its responding to citizen calls for service, enforcing traffic laws to keep aggressive driving suburbanites from killing each other, and driving around neighborhoods bored as **** trying to scare off potential burglars.
Jorge would usually fall into the citizen calls for service category, in that Jorge was either the male abusor in a Domestic Violence call, or the drunk asshole pissing on the building behind the 7/11, or something else of that type, maybe he was loitering on a corner in the inner city where folks are known to loiter for drug sale/purchase and an Officer decided to make contact with him, maybe do a field interview with him for those purposes. The fact is, there are about a billion reasons why Jorge could come into contact with the police, ZERO of them being, "cuz he wuz a damned mexi-can"
Get all that TV bull**** out of your heads, that is NOT even close to what policing really is.