Jay Koester from the Best of Times once again punks out an LEA, the last time for fear mongering for dollars, this time for wasting resources hunting for undocumented immigrants (and pisses off a lot of mexican err, illegal immigrant bashers in the process)- and all he had to do was point out the truth:
"When the El Paso County Sheriff's Office was hit with evidence that their "anti-crime operations" arrested very few criminals but somehow netted many, many undocumented immigrants, they just tried to claim that was the natural outcome of their police work. The county was just overrun with so many undocumented immigrants, that's who they naturally found while driving around.
Otero County sheriffs used the same excuse, but the stories above show their own reports make clear they were spending their days hunting undocumented immigrants. They weren't fighting crime at all. They didn't even have the sense to keep what they were really up to out of their reports!"
My take on the issue (from this piece):
"Why is it interesting you ask? It is interesting because the very same newspaper has researched the issue and found that increased funding for border security translates to more funds to pay for overtime for local law enforcement which yields a lot of undocumented immigrants but little else. (here and here and here and here and here and here ).
A blog post on racism within ICE and other feds: here
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