Arizona governor signs immigration bill

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by agzg

ICE =/= CBP

They're both under DHS but try to call a Border Patrol agent an ICE agent or, even worse, and ICE agent a Border Patrol agent and watch smoke come out of their ears.

Okay, thanks.

Now, if there's a such thing as ICE AND CBP, what the hell do we need Jane Cop for to do this? If someone gets arrested for non-immigration offenses and they find the person is an illegal immigrant (as someone stated earlier) that's fine. That includes people who are detected as illegal immigrants at the time of their arrest because they don't have I.D. and so forth. But...shouldn't that have been happening, anyway? Precincts and jurisdictions weren't ignoring this altogether so what was the point of this law beyond politics and making the voters happy?

[agzg]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Okay, thanks.

Now, if there's a such thing as ICE AND CBP, what the hell do we need Jane Cop for to do this? If someone gets arrested for non-immigration offenses and they find the person is an illegal immigrant (as someone stated earlier) that's fine. That includes people who are detected as illegal immigrants at the time of their arrest because they don't have I.D. and so forth. But...shouldn't that have been happening, anyway? Precincts and jurisdictions weren't ignoring this altogether so what was the point of this law beyond politics and making the voters happy?

There's also USCIS or INS. CBP::Local Police, USCIS::State Police, ICE::FBI, kinda. They work together but are not the same.

And no, we don't need police officers actively enforcing immigration laws beyond reporting illegal immigrants uncovered in the routine investigation of other crimes.

And yes, that should have been (and has been) happening.

And no, there is no other point beyond making the voters happy.