Immigration Bureaucracy

The federal courts have regularly held power to control immigration is exclusively in the federal government. To achieve exclusive control the federal government has enacted and extensively amended the INA (8 USC §§ 1101 et seq.). The INA (Immigration Nationality Act) establishes a set of rules for legal immigration and naturalization. It provides a system for processing and deporting illegal immigrants and specifies civil and criminal penalties for violations. To enforce the INA, Congress created a national immigration bureaucracy—the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). When Donald Trump became president on November 8, 2016, he proposed that local law enforcement should be able to enforce the immigrants. With the continued numbers

of immigrants crossing the borders every day, immigrates are no longer just affecting border states, they are affecting the nation's safety and national security. Although, the federal government is responsible for the laws concerning immigration in the states. Local law enforcement should be able to enforce the law on the immigrants. Local authorities can impose the law on immigrants within reach of the communities and surrounding of illegal and legal immigrates on an everyday basis.

Local law enforcement officers swore to protect and serve all who live within the community without prejudice. They are capable of enforcing the local laws within the guidelines of the federal immigration law, with the trust of the city. Communication and partnership between all branches of the law, federal, state and local can be a positive force against illegal immigration. History has shown that there have been many assaults on our country. If local law enforcement intervened, besides given the rights to enforce immigration laws, there would be a noticeable decrease in terrorist; and criminal acts against our nation. Limiting local law enforcement from cooperating with the federal government is foolish because local law officers need to secure our community and protect the public safety. Mark Brnovich an American lawyer and is a politician from the state of Arizona and a supporter of local law enforcement enforcing immigration laws wrote an article "Advisory Model Policy for Law Enforcement Applying SB 1070 " by Mark Brnovich (2016). Brnovich supports and argues that local law enforcement policies and enforcing immigration don’t violate federal or state

laws. He explains that one of the more recent expanding cooperative methods under I.C.E (Immigration Customs Enforcement) created by the federal government to direct threats by criminal aliens arrested by state and local law enforcement the protection policies are the use of Detainers. Detainers work in a way that state and local law enforcement either notify ICE of discharged illegal immigrant or to keep custody of the immigrant for up to the law, limited time for ICE to pick-up.

Although, federal immigration laws are clear there is the consideration of local law enforcement resources, allowing the local law officers the opportunity to volunteer will balance some of the concerns.

The current cost of crime by illegal immigrants out ways, additional increase financial accountability of local governments. The effects of many local law enforcement efforts are not of economic it is at the cost of the public safety. The account of criminal activity by illegal immigrants yields over the value of the price of the public safety. Currently, Congress has been in debate whether local law enforcement should be able to implement the law on immigration. Since day one of Donald Trump's term Commander in Chief of our nation has proposed that our Local Law enforcement should be able to enforce the law on immigration and shall have no problem in doing so. Receiving assistance with immigration population overload in a within the communities, safety around the border preventing illegal actives and criminal. Plus, the immediate communication and cooperation between the federal and local government within the society will decrease the criminal activities keeping the nation

safer.

There has been much work on the cooperation with the federal government and the local law enforcement on how to enforce the law on immigrants. Having communication and collaboration between the federal government and the local law enforcement can help so much on the INA act. From Cristian Rodriguez, who is a professor at Yale law school and whose research interest includes the constitutional law and theory; immigration law and policy; administrative law and process; language rights and policy; and the citizenship theory. Rodriguez would give a statement explaining that" that the federal government, the states, and localities form part of an integrated regulatory structure that helps the country as a whole to absorb immigration flows and manage the social and cultural change that immigration inevitably engenders"(Rodriguez 2008). If the state and the federal work together, it can solve a lot of problems with immigration. Hindering illegal activities, such as immigrate criminal acts and terrorist from causing devastation to our communities, states, and nation.

State and local law enforcement should never have to turn away from immigration violation that is harming local communities or our country. Non- cooperation is a threat to our communities and a risk for criminal activities to play out on our streets. An attorney by the name of Colleen Melody researched the fact that more immigrants are bringing illegal items from their countries to the United States. With these concerns, the federal government should be helping the border states and supporting the local police in enforcing immigration laws. Border patrol along with local law is to be considered the front line of preventing massive destructive weapons and undocumented aliens from entering the United States. From Melody, she would explain that "Immigrants sometimes possess valuable information about organized crime connected with their home and many immigrants agree to cooperate with law-enforcement officials after being arrested for a crime that has to happen with their own country" (2008 Melody). A lot of the times they would just put the people they arrested back to their country which would cost a lot of money to do so.

While the immigrants are being deported back to their country Crime can decline when local law officers are given the authority to enforcing on policies regarding immigration. Declaring some elements of the law beyond the state’s power to enact, but leaving in place the section mandating that officers, while enforcing other laws, question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally. From a group of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice program, a group of professors Monica Varsanyi, Paul Lewis, Doris Provine, Scott Decker has been researching on the law enforcement since Donald Trump became president. Lewis from the group would state " More recently, state laws been adopted that require local police to assist in immigration enforcement. The U.S. Supreme Court recently examined one of these laws, Arizona’s SB1070, declaring some elements of the law beyond the state’s power to enact, but leaving in place the section mandating that officers, while enforcing other laws, question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally"(2017 Lewis). With more states being able to enforce the law on immigrates it would reduce the crime rate because there would be fewer people to attend.

If local law enforcement didn’t assist with the overload in a population of immigrants, the federal government would have a difficult time implementing the law with a community of immigration. Which, may also cause criminal illegal immigrants to be released back on to local streets to continue the criminal act. There are estimated 86,000 criminal illegal aliens living in this country that itself cause some alarm (Booth, 2006). From the society of law program at Harvard, Daniel Booth has been performing research on the population on how to reduce that number of crime. Booth would propose that;

The federal government does not have the workforce to enforce immigration laws. It is against this backdrop that proposals to allow or require state and local police officers to assist in enforcing immigration laws have been grounded. Such proposals increase the overall capability of the federal government to enforce the federal immigration laws by essentially adding 700,000 pairs of eyes and ears to the force of federal immigration agents (20) The addition of these officers could be essential to effective enforcement of our immigration laws. (Booth 2006, p.g. 21)

Immigration is an ongoing issue and that the Federal Government must make changes that allow local law enforcement the ability to enforce immigration laws without obstacles.

There is also a different side of overload immigration population, and that is having an extraordinary economic effect. The more immigrants come into the United States, the more jobs are to create, and the money will trickle throughout the community, furthermore boosting the economy. A gentleman by the name Andrew Soergel reports, and researcher around the border regarding economics explain that;

Among other findings, the 164-page document highlighted that 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. And more than half of U.S. startups valued at $1 billion or more – known colloquially as "unicorns" – were started by immigrants. (2017 Soergel)

The fact that law-abiding immigrants are distributing money within the community should stand for something. The purchase of everyday living items produces tax profit, therefore leads to funds for local gain.

There are things that government must start doing to make the U.S exceptional. Rather than having the federal government overload on performance the usage of the INA act should be implemented. Local law enforcement is in every state at all times, and they should be able to enforce the law on immigration. The fact is the Federal government is in need of assistance concerning the immigration problem. With the officers having the aid on the overload in a population within the community of immigration and the federal government. Possessing safety around the border preventing illegal actives and terrorist. Plus, the immediate communication and cooperation between the federal and local government within the community that will decrease the criminal activities keeping the nation safer too.

Preventing policies are harmful as they are as a threat to our communities, states, and nation. Not allowing Local Law enforcement to enforce immigration laws is a waste of law enforcement resources. Most importantly it is the of allowing criminal immigrates released into our communities. Local law enforcement enforcing immigration laws should be considered and required to cooperate with the federal government.