From the Study of Prince William County Police Illegal Immigration Enforcement Policy Interim Report 2009:

“Most of the illegal immigrant arrestees referred to ICE have committed only minor crimes. If the objective of the County’s immigration enforcement effort is to reduce serious crime, then the current policy does not provide a very efficient means of achieving it. If the objective is to remove illegal immigrants, then ICE does not have sufficient resources to handle the large numbers of referrals that would result. ICE currently tries to limit the types of offenses for which it will pick up illegal immigrants to more serious crimes in jurisdictions other than Prince William County.”

It is clear to me that this one, brief but succinct paragraph, just about sums up why I feel like this county’s policy has no real direction. What is this policy suppose to do? Because from this interim UVA report, both objectives are failing. 

Although the supervisors were unanimous in their vote for the immigration-related law enforcement policy in July and October 2007, they were divided in their thoughts about what the policy should do.
When we spoke with them in summer 2008, the supervisors listed their own motivations for supporting the policy. Of the five supervisors we spoke with, four had participated in the initial unanimous vote in October 2007 (the fifth was elected in November 2007 on a platform opposing the policy). Among them, two indicated that the policy, which they supported and thought would improve public safety, was directed only toward criminal illegal immigrants. A third supervisor said that the initial motivation was to try to reduce such neighborhood conditions as overcrowding in homes, cars parked on lawns and crowded emergency departments in the local hospitals. The fourth supervisor reported that the policy was intended to remove all illegal immigrants from the county. Members of the Board of Supervisors also thought that the policy could reduce costs and save the public money, as indicated in the framing of the resolution.

How can we accurately determine whether the policy is reaching its intended goals if our Supervisors don’t agree on what the policy is suppose to achieve.

 

153 Thoughts to “What is this policy meant to do?”

  1. Censored bybvbl

    M-h, I got them from my mother. I think they were taken by an informant in the klan and were probably given to my father. There are many duplicates. I don’t recognize the handwriting on the back so I’m guessing it was done by the picture-taker. The participants were all relaxed and smiling so I don’t think they were posing for the feds. They were done in the mid-50s so even the children would be geezers by now. (Haha – my age)

    I have a few loaded up in my computer and have played with the images. Without knowledge of who took the pictures, what his or her relation to the klan now happens to be, or if the subjects are still alive or involved, I’ve hestitated to use the images in any art work.

  2. Moon-howler

    Facinating–even more so that you aren’t sure of real origin. I wish you would use them. They are part of history and you know that if someone else ever gets them, they would be used.

  3. anon-100

    Murder rate from illegal aliens went down 100% from 2007 to 2008. To me that was worth every penny spent.

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