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More communities use local police to enforce US immigration law

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Posted on: July 17th, 2007
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“To those who would crack down on illegal immigrants, it seems an obvious strategy: Have tens of thousands of local law-enforcement officers carry out federal immigration law by checking the status of people they stop or arrest.

It turns out to be more complicated than that, but the number of communities endorsing the idea – including, most recently, Virginia’s – has been gradually rising and is expected to jump even higher in the months ahead.

“This is something were going to see a lot of now,” says law Dave Martin of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He says public frustration over high levels of illegal immigration and Congresss failure to agree on reforms is spurring the reaction.”

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