Comments about ‘Davis County draws ICE's cold shoulder’

It is time for Davis County to stand up for itself and stop being the dumping ground for the rest of the state. It is bad enough that our state government tries to use Davis County as a dumping ground for pollution, now the federal government is using it as a dumping ground for illegal aliens.

Shurtleff told a group in 2006 that he would not enforce the immigration laws. He stated when drawing up the agreement, that they (ICE) would have to abide by "our" rules.

It sounds like there is more to the story.

I am not sure where Clem lives but as a Davis County resident, I am not aware that we are "a dumping ground for pollution". Tooele County gets the nuclear waste and Salt Lake County has more inversion than Davis in the winter. I don't imagine Davis County has as many illegal aliens as its neighbor counties to the north or the south so it is not a dumping ground for illegal aliens. This story was about getting the training so that Davis County could legally identify and hold illegal aliens under the Feds could get around to taking them off the county's hands instead of turning them loose.

thank you president Obama ... and some people want the Federal Government in charge of health care?

Davis County can get information on detained suspected illegal aliens by simply using their existing criminal justice system computer and sending a message to the DHS Law Enforcement Support Center. The LESC operates 24 hrs a day/365 days a year and currently handles over one million queries a year. It is FREE. You don't need any agreements or MOUs. It is available right now and has been used by Utah for over nine years. A response comes back within about twenty minutes and the local ICE office is also notified automatically.

If the suspected inmate is a prior deport or serious violator, the LESC will issue a legal detainer to Davis County via a computer network.

This program pre-dates the creation of DHS and was one of the better programs of the old INS. However, there is a complete computer record of all transactions, so the old "I told you, no you didn't" excuse is not an option. That argument has been used before in Utah when a criminal alien is released.

When will deporting illegal aliens become a priority? Does our countries sovereignty mean anything to US law enforcement?

If you care about our country, you should care about removing illegal immigrants from our communities. Every time local law enforcement lets an illegal immigrant go, they are making the problem worse by encouraging them to break laws with impunity. When they are arrested, they need to be fingerprinted and identified as illegal immigrants. Enter their info into the ICE database and processed into the deportation system for removal. Is that so hard to understand? Without enforcement, we tell them it's okay to just do anything they want. Please!