Colorado's national embarrassment, Rep. Tom Tancredo, steps in it again:
Tancredo said sheriffs in his home state of Colorado have started to realize that detaining illegal immigrants can be a profit-making venture. The sheriffs are detaining illegal immigrants who have been arrested and charged with committing a local crime and billing the federal government for the immigrants’ detention, he said.
Update:
We're adamantly opposed to this. For one thing, it will step up racial profiling. Driving While Latino. For another, many immigration violations are civil, not criminal violations.
Agreed.
Posted by Walter at November 11, 2003 05:32 PM