The federal government under a special program to check immigration status of people in your custody. but you did support this law. what effect will the judge s ruling have? well, we re still going to stop those that are in the area illegally. we have a crime suppression operation coming up tomorrow, our 17th. we re going to send out posse and deputy sheriffs. and if we come across any people here pursuant to our duties, we re going to arrest them, turn them over to i.c.e. or book them into our jails. if there s already programs under which law police can help to enforce law, why do you need this arizona law? well, this law that the part that she struck out so far, when we come across an illegal immigrant, i was hoping that we could arrest that person under that misdemeanor law in lieu of turning them over to i.c.e. but right now we ll keep turning them over to i.c.e. we will do our duties, doing our enforcement. if we come across any illegal aliens, we re going to do what
Part she struck out so far, when we come across an illegal immigrant, i was hoping that we could arrest that person under that misdemeanor law in lieu of turning them over to i.c.e. right now we ll keep turning them over to i.c.e. we will do our duties, doing our enforcement. if we come across any illegal aliens, we re going to do what we ve been doing three years, enforcing the human smuggling law, the employer sanction law. those are both state laws. we ve been doing it. 40,000 people, we have arrested, detained or investigated in our jails. i would like to have seen this law go through but we re still going to do what we have been doing. why would you prefer to hold them in your jails as opposed to just turning them over to federal immigration authorities? because under current law, you can just turn the illegals over to federal immigration authorities and, therefore, not incur the expense of putting them in jails, right, which the new law would require. i don t care about expen