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In a town where roughly one in five residents speaks Spanish, the police department is asking for permission to begin doing immigration enforcement work.
Suffern, N.Y. is the first jurisdiction in our area to ask the federal government to cross designate its police officers as federal agents trained to identify undocumented immigrants using federal data bases, and file deportation proceedings against arrested immigrants who have criminal records and no legal status in the U.S.
Mayor John Keegan says he asked his police chief to make the application after a series of crimes involving members of Suffern’s growing immigrant community, which is mostly Mexican. “*
*From: http://cbs2.com
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