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HB1618: Immigration laws; Governor to enter into agreement with federal Immigration, et al., regarding.
Chief Patron
Del.
Jeff Frederick (R-52)
Jeff Frederick
(R-52)
Woodbridge, VA
Served: 2004–
Progress
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Status
Bill is Dead
Summary
Immigration laws; Governor to enter into agreement with federal Immigration regarding. States that it is the responsibility of the Governor to enter into an agreement with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would allow the Department of State Police to enforce civil immigration laws. View Full Text »
Poll Results
4 votes
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Bill Text
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Comments
I honestly believe that if this bill is passed, it will destroy the trust hardly built with vulnerable communities as the immigrant community. It will enforce unjustice to be covered under a silk of fear. I completely disagree with this.
Why should there be an atmosphere of trust between illegal aliens and the police? That's like trust between the arsonist community and the fire department. But if you mean trust between the legal immigrant community and the police, that's different. If legal immigrants won't trust the police because the police are enforcing the law, then they are recreating here the very culture of lawlessness that many of them claim to have fled from to come here.
Gangs like MS-13 cannot be combated effectively without an atmosphere of trust between undocumented immigrants and police. Crimes perpetrated against American citizens and witnessed by undocumented immigrants would go unreported and unsolved, the perpetrator remaining on the loose, if immigrants didn't feel like they could come forward.