Newark. Some get panties in a bunch over cop asking immigration status
It took the murders of three young people and the "possible" (cough) involvement of an illegal who shouldn't have been on the streets before New Jersey took action to identify illegal aliens in their jails. In this instance the pro-illegals and others are whining because a police officer committed the unpardonable offense of asking two people at a crime scene if they were illegals, one was. Anyway, you can read the rest. I understand why they don't want to instill fear in possible witnesses or victims of crime. I hope they also understand that if illegal weren't here then that wouldn't an issue.
A deputy chief with the Newark Police Department violated state directives on immigration enforcement when he asked witnesses to a crime scene if they were in the country legally, an investigation by the state attorney general has found.
In findings announced yesterday, state investigators concluded that Deputy Chief Samuel DeMaio wrongly asked a freelance photographer and his boss about their immigration status after the two journalists had alerted police to a dead body in the city's Ironbound section.
The Sept. 6 incident occurred less than three weeks after Attorney General Anne Milgram issued new guidelines ordering police to report illegal immigrants arrested for serious crimes to federal immigration authorities.
The directive, however, also prohibits police from asking crime victims and witnesses about their immigration status.
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