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The bill also does not. address the fact that in most parts of the country, local law enforcement remains woefully under-equipped to help enforce immigration law. Consider this: Three of the six terrorists who plotted to attack New Jersey’s Fort Dix last month were in the country illegally for more than 20 years. Shockingly, the three had compiled an exhaustive list of 75 police charges, but because immigration authorities were not notified of the charges, they made no attempt to deport these terrorists.
Police lack direct access to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database. Without such access, the burden often falls on local authorities to contact the federal bureaucracy regarding the legal status of the person in custody. The process, when undertaken, has caused complaints of delay.
But full direct access alone will not solve the problem.
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