ROGERS. its just bad policy. It is not the way to get at an issue. We are now dealing with the Senate. and we will be dealing in the House with an immigration reform bill. We will eventually deal with that issue. In the meantime. we have other business to take care of in this country. other protections to offer to our citizens. To have the local police officer. on top of the fact that theyre busy already. now youre going to give them another assignment. But to have them enforce immigration law. I cant tell you how much all the people I speak to say they dont want that. They want the freedom to get information at all levels of the community and not be seen as an immigration officer. There used to be a bad joke about somebody would come into a restaurant and yell out "immigration" and a lot of people would leave and jump out the window. And thats funny. and its sad at the same time. But if you adjust that to a police department in a neighborhood looking for information and having people run away from them because they see them as immigration enforcement agents. then we lose the opportunity to really protect our communities.
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