DOZENS OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS ARE SEEKING EXPANDED POWERS TO CHECK
PEOPLE'S IMMIGRATION STATUS.
THERE IS A PROGRAM CALLED 280 7G THAT ALLOWS LOCAL POLICE
DEPARTMENTS TO GET THEIR POLICE OFFICERS TO PERFORM CERTAIN
FUNCTIONS THAT TYPICALLY ARE IN CHARGE OF WHAT ICE IS IN
CHARGE OF.
THEY HAVE OFFER THIS PROGRAM TO CERTAIN POLICE DEPARTMENTS.
29 HAVE SIGNED UP, 39 MORE INTERESTED IN SIGNING UP.
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE SIGNING UP?
SO
ESSENTIALLY YOU SIGN UP
FOR THIS PROGRAM, YOU GET DEPUTIZED TO PROMISE TO CHECK
THE BACKGROUND OF ANY PERSON YOU SUSPECT OF BEING UNDOCUMENTED.
BUT THERE IS ANOTHER INCENTIVE BUILT INTO THIS PROGRAM
THAT WOULD KIND OF INCENTIVIZE THESE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT.
DO YOU GUYS HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
>>OF COURSE.
I DON'T LIKE A COOL NAME FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT.
>>WHAT ABOUT SWAT TEAM THOUGH.
>>SWAT ONLY BECAME COOL IN RETROSPECT.
IT DIDN'T SOUND COOL UNTIL THE SHOW STARTED.
>> BS.
>>IT IS NOT AS BAD AS INSTINCTIVELY AS I START SO YOU
ARE NOW GOING TO FINANCIALLY INCENTIVIZE LAW ENFORCEMENT
TO DETAIN PEOPLE.
IT IS PRETTY EASY FOR ANY CRIME OR EASY TO SEE WHY YOU WOULD
PULL OVER A DARK LOOKING PERSON FOR JAYWALKING OR ROLLING
THROUGH A STOP SIGN WHEN NOBODY ELSE WAS AROUND.
EVERY DAY THE COPS LOOK THE OTHER DAY EVERY DAY.
BUT THEY NOW HAVE THIS ENHANCED FEDERAL POWER TO CHECK THE
IMMIGRATION STATUS AND DETAIN THEM.
IT IS CRIMINAL AND HORRIBLE.
I ALSO HOPE THAT MANY ON THE RIGHT ARE SUITABLY OUTRAGED AT
THIS OVERREACH OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY GIVEN TO THE STATES.
I'M SURE THERE ARE NOT.
BUT IF THEY ARE TRUE TO WHAT THEY BELIEVE AND THEN THEY
WOULD BE.
>> THIS HAS BEEN SHUTDOWN ALREADY IN CERTAIN
JURISDICTIONS TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED
AS A RESULT OF GIVING PEOPLE AN INCENTIVE.
THEY HAVE SHUT THESE DOWN LARGELY ON RACIAL GROUNDS.
>> SHERIFF JOE.
>>YEAH.
>> ESSENTIALLY TELLING THEM YOU HAVE TO SIGN THIS OR WE
HAVE TO SEND YOU BACK AS OPPOSED TO NOT SIGNING IT AND
ALLOWING THE PROCESS TO GO FORWARD WHERE IT COULD BE
LOOKED INTO THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE A RIGHT TO BE RELEASED.
>> THE GUYS GIVEN ONE PARDON, RIGHT?
TRUMP.
>>THE ONE I HAVE HEARD ABOUT IS JOE.
>> IF THAT
QUOTE
IS JUST CHANGED SLIGHTLY, BRING ME SOME
MEXICAN FOOD FOR EXAMPLE.
I WILL GO TO THAT COUNTY AND EAT MEXICAN FOOD WITH THE
SHERIFF, THAT SOUNDS FANTASTIC.
BUT NO INSTEAD, THERE IS NO GETTING AROUND IT.
ANYONE WHO SAYS THE PHRASE IN A LAW-ENFORCEMENT POSITION BRING
ME SOME MEXICANS, THAT IS RACIST.
AM I WRONG?
IS THERE A SOFT INTERPRETATION OF THAT?
>>I DON'T THINK THAT IS UP FOR DEBATE.
MASS INCARCERATION IS AN INDUSTRY.
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY GOING TO BOLSTER PRIVATE PRISONS WHICH IS
SOMETHING JEFF SESSIONS WANTED OUT RIGHT.
KIND OF ENDING PROGRAMS THAT WERE ENDING THE EXPANSION
OF PRIVATE PRISONS, THIS WILL BOLSTER THAT.
YOU WILL GET RACIAL PROFILING ANYTIME ñ
THE ENROLLMENT IS PROLIFERATING IN THESE PLACES WHERE THE
DEMOGRAPHIC OF IMMIGRANTS IS NOT HIGH.
PLACES LIKE LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK, ALL THIS STUFF IS
GETTING SHUT DOWN.
>>IT JUST ALSO FEELS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN PAINTING THIS PICTURE
OF THIS TOWN IS THIS THING THAT IS GETTING OVERRUN BY
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
I GUESS MAYBE BUT YOU KNOW ñ
>>I'M SURE IT'S PLACES IN THE COUNTRY WHERE IT IS A PROBLEM,
BUT OVERALL THE PERCENTAGE OF TIME THAT WE SPENT TALKING ABOUT
THIS IS MASSIVELY OVERSHADOWS THE ACTUAL LEVEL OF PROBLEM
THIS IS.
I DON'T MEAN TO MINIMIZE ñ THERE ARE TOWNS WHERE PEOPLE HAVE
LOST JOBS TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.
IT IS NOT A CRISIS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
IT IS OBVIOUS.
YOU THINK COPS WILL TRY TO CHECK BRETT AND I?
WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW THIS WILL GO DOWN.
IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED IN MARICOPA COUNTY.