Speech #1100083165

Local law enforcement officials who apprehend people they have every reason to believemaybe absolute proofthat they are here illegally routinely are allowing the people they apprehendmaybe it is DUI. maybe it is for an accident or whatever. a domestic disputewhatever it is. they are letting them go because somehow they have gotten the message that nobody will come and pick them up. and they dont know how to do it or who to call and what the processes are. That Is what the 287(g) program is designed to deal with. Now. it has been odd to me since I have sought to do something about this for quite some time. well before the comprehensive immigration reform bill was introduced in this Senate over a number of years ago to deal with it. there is always an objection. It was out