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Local law enforcement agencies across the country are constrained by tight budgets and limited resources. It’s difficult, for them to focus on detaining illegal immigrants and enforcing immigration law, a task usually left to federal authorities, when they are struggling as it is to meet their more traditional responsibilities. As a result, aliens who have committed crimes are released routinely from jails as soon as they finish serving their sentences — a far more troubling form of catch and release than that which goes on near the border. Local police requests for immigration officials to deport criminal aliens often fall on deaf ears.
Congress must explore grant programs and other innovative ways to enhance cooperation between federal and local authorities. We should encourage local entities to participate in voluntary programs like the 287(g) initiative, which enters local and state police into a
See CANTOR, Page A14
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