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So why would law enforcement officials decide not to report to federal authorities persons suspected of?

So why would law enforcement officials decide not to report to federal authorities persons suspected of violating federal law?Ike Leggett’s spokesman doesn’t even try to make the ridiculous case that it’s too much work for police to do their jobs, he just resorts to ideological pablums, admitting that political goals are more important than protecting children. Earlier this year, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett altered the county’s long-standing policy of not sending the names of those arrested to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Pushed by a series of high-profile killings allegedly committed by illegal immigrants, Leggett said in February the county would now send to ICE the names of people accused of violent offenses. Leggett said the county would rely on the state’s legal list of violent offenses. But second-degree assault is not included on that list, and Banegas’ name would not have been turned over to ICE under the new policy, Leggett’s spokesman Patrick Lacefield said. “People need to be held responsible for the crimes they commit,” Lacefield said. “Reporting every single crime would be putting county police in the position of enforcing federal immigration policy,” he added, calling on the federal government to reform immigration laws.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime/Illegal-immigrant-charged-with-child-r@pe-had-been-released-a-year-earlier-after-assault-arrest-43443292.html I guess that should more accurately read “some people need to be held responsible for the crimes they commit, as long as we don’t have a vested interest in protecting them.” I wonder how many other violations of federal law the Montgomery County Police Department refuses to enforce, and under what circumstances

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1. This is common in too many states unfortunately, Maryland is a sanctuary state and is fighting now to appeal this. I think the police should hand every known illegal or suspected illegal straight over to ICE instead of just a list of names of people who have committed just felonies. It is sad too, because since Virginia and Penn. have started deporting and getting strict on illegals, they have benn swarming into MD, especially since they use to be able to get drivers license, thankfully Maryland has stopped this.