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Tonight: Immigration policy panel discussion in Menlo Park

Original post made on May 24, 2017

A free, open-to-the-public panel discussion about recent changes in immigration policy will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, in Menlo Park.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 5:23 AM

Comments (5)

Posted by pearl
a resident of another community
on May 24, 2017 at 1:51 pm

pearl is a registered user.

There's nothing to discuss. Send all the illegals back to their country of origin. Stop spending my taxpayer dollars on these people!!! Let police and ICE do their jobs to get illegals out of the United States of America!!!


Posted by Law AND Order
a resident of Menlo Park: Menlo Oaks
on May 24, 2017 at 2:08 pm

Don't burden our fine police with this ridiculous task - I support Sanctuary status.

So do the police, in town after town.

"Police chiefs across the country support sanctuary cities because they keep crime down"

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"Police chiefs know that today’s unreported domestic violence or sexual assault or robbery can become tomorrow’s reported homicide."

-and-

"First, the current system of enforcement is a logical division of labor in which all parties know what is expected of them. Federal agencies, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), enforce immigration laws, which are federal statutes. Local police agencies enforce state and local criminal laws. These roles are compatible and complementary.

Second, local police have their hands full — investigating murders, robberies, sexual assaults, burglaries, thefts and other crimes, and working to prevent these and other crimes from occurring. When local police identify a suspect and have probable cause, they make the arrest, without regard to the suspect’s immigration status.

Finally, police chiefs warn that if their agencies are required to enforce federal immigration laws, it will hurt their ability to investigate and solve serious crimes in their communities. If people are afraid to have contact with the local police, they will not report crime, serve as witnesses, or tell police what is going on in their neighborhoods. Without information from the community, investigating crime becomes difficult and crime levels rise."


Support Menlo Park's finest - support Sanctuary City status.


Posted by Citizen
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on May 24, 2017 at 6:59 pm

Federal authorities will have information once someone is booked into a local or state correctional facility. There ICE will review and evaluate the individual arrested and see if they should be interviewed and possibly deported. Once again, federal law supersedes local- state law. Get over it, you lose, federal law enforcement will do their job and if here Illegality, you will be deported.


Posted by Citizen
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on May 24, 2017 at 8:26 pm

To law and order;
[Part removed.] People that comitt serious crimes should be gone. They are guests here. Get rid of them ASAP.

People chief's are puppets of city managers. They are not elected officials. They are cowards and want to keep their jobs.

Less jail overcrowding too.


Posted by Hmmm
a resident of another community
on May 25, 2017 at 12:30 pm

Citizen - the jail scenario you describe has been happening for years.


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