crackdown charges illegals as ‘felony conspirators’ - Other states releasing captured immigrants

“While authorities in Arizona were busy testing out a new law that treats illegal aliens as felony conspirators with the smugglers bringing them across the border, frustrated police in Kansas and Tennessee were forced to release 39 suspects because officials from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Department refused to take them into custody.

It’s that federal inaction that motivated Arizona lawmakers to approve a new law creating the crime of smuggling last year. Maricopa County District Attorney Andrew Thomas has announced he will interpret the law to mean illegals caught with a smuggler can be prosecuted as co-conspirators if they paid a coyote to transport them across the border. Thomas intends to seek two year sentences for 54 illegals arrested this week 50 miles east of Phoenix.”

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