Florida Sheriff Targets Illegals
by Jeff Davis
Now that the Senate Amnesty Bill is dead, some local authorities feel free to enforce this country’s existing immigration laws. A recent news article reports “The sheriff’s department (for) Panama City, Florida has developed a remarkably effective - and controversial - way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs. Those who take off are chased down and arrested on charges such as trespassing, for cutting through someone else’s property, or loitering, for hiding out in someone’s yard, or reckless driving, for speeding off in a car. U.S. immigration authorities are then given the names of those believed to be in this country illegally.”
A simple yet effective technique which can be adapted and used in any community.
The same article continues “‘It’s not wrong for them to run, but it’s not wrong for us to chase them either,’ said Sheriff Frank McKeithen, who created his Illegal Alien Task Force in April to target construction sites in this Florida Panhandle county….Immigrant advocates say the technique is repugnant, and the ACLU says its constitutionality is questionable.” Of course they do. Any attempt to enforce immigration laws is “repugnant” to the far left ACLU. (more…)