http://www.reuters.com/article/us-massachusetts-immigration-idUSKBN1A91XZ
BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts police do not have
the authority to detain illegal immigrants solely to buy time for
federal law enforcement officials to take them into custody, the state's
top court ruled on Monday.
The decision
amounts to a rejection of requests by the federal Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agency for courts and law enforcement agencies to
hold illegal immigrants, who are facing civil deportation orders, in
custody for up to 48 hours after their cases are resolved.
"Massachusetts law provides no
authority for Massachusetts court officers to arrest and hold an
individual solely on the basis of a Federal civil immigration detainer,
beyond the time that the individual would otherwise be entitled to be
released from State custody," the court wrote in its decision.
The U.S. Justice Department had
argued that the 48-hour detainer requests reflected basic practices of
cooperation between various law enforcement agencies.
Attorneys for Lunn and the state had largely agreed that Massachusetts lacked the authority.
"This
decision allows local law enforcement to focus their resources on
keeping people safe," said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey,
in a statement.
How, exactly, you stupid, stupid bastards, is releasing bank robbers and other criminals (the case that this decision was based on was Massachusetts' decision to release a bank robber rather than turn him over to ICE) going to make us safe?
Massachusetts is the place where America was born, and they're trying their hardest to make it the deathbed of the nation, too.
My decision to leave Massachusetts and move 1500 miles away to America was downstream of politics. Sure, I had no representation in any political way, and about half my income went to taxes. My wife has some family there who are illegals, and, while they're lovely people, the red-carpet treatment they receive in MA was an eye-opener, so over-the-top ridiculous that it made Inappropriately Hot Foreign Wife, herself an illegal for a time, into a Republican.. These days she's even got an opinion on the capital gains tax. Amazing how things change.
I was spending more and more time at work to get by in MA, in a shitty apartment in a shitty town surrounded by mostly shitty people. I did it to pay for orthodontic work for my kid (which illegals get for free in MA), for medical bills for my family which are, again, free for illegals. MassHealth is supposed to be for citizens only, except that it isn't. Illegals with kids get top-down high-quality care, although illegal adults do not get free preventative care for the most part, so they just pop on down to the Emergency Room for free treatment whenever they get a sniffle, and the taxpayers get to give the local hospital $1500 or so.
Well, that galls, for certain. And yet, while even middle-class MA is a dirty, unsafe, run down place for the most part, compared to middle-class America, there's no shortage of well-educated WASP's standing ready to ensure that no one can buy bb's for a fucking Daisy air rifle, but a 9-year old can get medication to start their sex change without consulting their parents. There are police vehicles EVERYWHERE. Honest, after a couple of years in FL, it was shocking to see so many police cars in my old hometown.
So, with this latest headline, I suppose most folks are shocked. Not me. I'm just glad I got out of Sodom early.
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There's an old saying that a Republican is a Democrat who was (insert really bad thing here.)
I converted from a staunch Demo family to a fiscally conservative Republican when I looked at my first real paycheck and went. "Where the hell did all the money go to?"
I still have adult acquaintances who are proud of voting for Pres. Clinton because he was cuter than the old guy, and for Sanders because of their student loans. They used to be friends. They now are less similar to me than space aliens.
And Florida isn't safe. There are powers down where you live that wish to convert us to what you left. Considering that Debbie whatshernameohyeah Shultz got reelected after it was proven that she was a lying cheating political whore for Mrs. Clinton. Yikes. And the caving of several State representatives who were supposedly republican on state gun issues, who came from your new neck of the woods.
Please win the lottery, or find gold or have a secret rich relative you've never known die and leave you money so you can retire and enter politics down there. You would cause peoples' heads to explode. Literally explode. And it would be fun to watch!!!
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