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Police's pact with immigration officials focus of meeting

Activists suspicious of such agreements

Civil rights leaders will host a town hall meeting Thursday evening to discuss an agreement between immigration officials and Las Vegas police.

The meeting will focus on the 287(g) agreement the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered into last year.


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  • The pact, which was the first of its kind in Nevada, allows specially trained officers at the Clark County Detention Center to identify immigration violators and start deportation proceedings against them.

    The partnership's name comes from the corresponding section of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.

    Critics of such agreements say they could lead to racial profiling and make people afraid to report crimes.

    Police have said the program is meant to reduce the number of violent criminals in the community and does not extend beyond the walls of the detention center. Nationally, dozens of local and state police groups have immigration partnerships with ICE.

    The Mesquite Police Department is on track to become the second Nevada city to adopt such an agreement.

    The department has been completing the necessary paperwork to participate in the partnership, an ICE spokesman said Monday.

    The town hall meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in the commission chambers at the Clark County Government Center, 500 S. Grand Central Parkway.

    The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada and Democracia Ahora are hosting the event.

    Contact reporter Lynnette Curtis at lcurtis@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0285.

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    Lou wrote on August 30, 2009 02:39 PM: Yes! Let's not let the Police enforce Laws! That is the Law that these Senators and Congress voted on long ago. Lets enforce the immigration laws. We need our hospitols back. We need our schools back. We need our Streets back. We are afraid to walk down the street. We are afraid to let out kids walk to or from school. We need to Police to start helping ICE since the Government cannot fund them properly.


    Douglas Ritter wrote on August 27, 2009 10:10 PM: It Would have been nice of you to provide the people of our community more than two days notice. I am assuming that it is a pulic meeting?
    Maybe someone didn't want the larger community to Know about this event!!!!

    Doug Ritter


    Cribster wrote on August 26, 2009 05:49 AM: There's one simple way to start reversing the invasion, E-Verify! If it were implemented nationwide, permanently, it would go a long way to starting the process of ridding America of the infestation.

    Unfortunately, Harry "body odor" Reid keeps blocking it from being voted into law. I belive most senators are for it if it ever comes to the floor for a vote.

    Implement E-Verify.

    End birthright citizenship!!!

    Put more boots on the ground at the border and stop prosecuting border patrol agents for doing their jobs.

    Do the above for starters and there will be no need to deport bus loads of illegal aliens daily. They will repatriate themselves.

    While we're at it let's get some pitchforks and torches and run La Raza, LULAC, MALDEF and all the rest across the border where they can do some good in Mexico.

    Illegal aliens not only cost 300-500 BILLION dollars a year during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we're also living in the age of terror.

    Instead of pandering to illegal aliens we need to make life MISERABLE. No more entitlements, no more jobs. 30 million Mexican citizens could go a long way to fixing their country if they returned.


    BillinVegas wrote on August 25, 2009 08:12 PM: I think I'll start an organization for fat old bald white guys who follow the law, pay taxes, have raised a family, are third or fourth generation Americans and are screwed every time they turn around by some "protected group" or another, cannot express negative thoughts against any minority, sexual deviants, lawless criminals or Progressive Politicians without being branded "un-American, part of an angry mob, evil mongers" or some other wonderful description, and are forced to conform to the latest ridiculous "Politically Correct" terminology for fear of "offending" some imagined sensibility on the part of any one of the groups mentioned above.
    Just exactly what part of "ILLEGAL" is so hard to understand? All of these people have BROKEN THE LAW by entering illegally, whether it was yesterday, last week, or twenty years ago!
    Every time this subject is brought up, the same cry goes up from the gutless politicians who are so afraid of offending 15% of the population, and spit in the face of the 70 plus % of the population - i.e. WHITE People, by saying that there are too many of them to deport, it is too big a job. Well, I have a suggestion - let's stop pandering to the groups who want to tear down the US, "reclaim" the southwest US for the mythical "AZTLAN" and stop bailing out failing industries and spend the money on deportation efforts, training and supplying Border and Immigration agents with the latest technologies, build the wall, and place the National Guard on the border, armed with M-60 machine guns with orders to shoot everything that moves in the direction of our sovereign nation. All employers, especially those who continue to employ illegals in construction, should be hit with huge fines until they stop! Problem solved!


    Mike! wrote on August 25, 2009 07:35 PM: Maybe if people were not here ILLEGALLY in the first place, they would not have to report a crime....get real! What a stupid point to make about doing the right thing! Lets keep rewarding people for committing crimes! This is why our country is so screwed up, we allow people to do the wrong things, then we reward them for doing that! I am the son of a LEGAL IMMIGRANT! I am the first in my family to be born in this country! My family did it the right way....is it so hard for others to do the same thing? Illegal Alliens destroyed the State of California, now they want to come here and destroy our state as well! Enough is enough! If I goto Mexico and live there ILEGALLY, do I get the same treatment as we give them here? HELL NO! If you want to come and experience the American Dream, DO IT LEGALLY and then you do not have to worry about Racial Profiling and reporting crimes! DAH! Lets start using some common sense in this country! People need to be held accountable for their actions! The Police ENFORCE THE LAW, thats there job! If you are so concerned about ilegal aliens, then we should not have a border and this country should just be one free for all and have no laws and no government!


    H Ford wrote on August 25, 2009 05:47 PM: What's next, the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada and Democracia Ahora going to attack Neighborhood Watch groups for discriminating against criminals... trespassers, burglars, gangs attacking innocent passersby?
    I discriminate everyday: I hate thugs and brutes, criminals of all sorts. I hate their actions, regardless of their skin color or where they originate.


    Rodman wrote on August 25, 2009 05:00 PM: G.H., you are right you can deport them all, BUT before they come back Americans must be prepared. America has fought wars protecting other nations along the 38th parallel in Korea, the borders of Viet Nam and has saved several other countries asses, all with arms and force. Perhaps the best way to prevent them from coming back is to arm and patrol the border in this country, shoot first and ask questions later. Of course, later never comes when you have been hit by a .357 shell or whatever else is now used by the military. Looks like maybe its now time to protect our own borders with force.


    Joe C wrote on August 25, 2009 04:06 PM: GH,
    I agree with you securing our border is of the up most importance dealing with this issue.

    We also must get the message out that these criminal invaders will not be rewarded for breaking numerous laws besides illegal entry.
    Along with jail time and huge fines for criminal businesses that hire them.

    If we start taking the welcome mat away and make criminal business and the criminal invaders have consequences for their actions, they will be less likely to return.

    We citizens are the victims of lawlessness from business, governments, and a racist invader.


    press2forEnglish wrote on August 25, 2009 03:30 PM: Get ready because obombast is going to push to make millions of them legal, with the right to bring in millions more , All will get the FREE health care he is pushing for. Make no mistake , unless Americans wake up and start to take out stock in Louisville sluggers , you will be speaking spanish and you will be controlled by a bunch of pancho villias that hate Americans , And latinos are savages to say the least , you can be they arn't squeemish about genocide,
    Be prepared


    GH wrote on August 25, 2009 02:10 PM: Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

    We could deport everyone but how long before they simply come back in and are on our streets again?

    We have nothing in place to keep them out so all we are doing is taking them out of the prison system and putting them back on the streets.

    We need to fix our immigration policy and border enforcement before anything else we do will make any difference.


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