Mexican-Americans Are Being Illegally Detained Despite Being Legitimate Citizens

holmes, soy un Americano!!!

A growing number of United States citizens have been detained under Obama administration programs intended to detect illegal immigrants who are arrested by local police.

In a spate of recent cases across the country, American citizens have been confined in local jails after federal immigration agents, acting on flawed information from Department of Homeland Security databases, instructed the police to hold them for investigation and possible deportation.

Americans said their vehement protests that they were citizens went unheard by local police and jailers for days, with no communication with federal immigration agents to clarify the situation. Any case where an American is held, even briefly, for immigration investigation is a potential wrongful arrest because immigration agents lack legal authority to detain citizens.

“I told every officer I was in front of that I’m an American citizen, and they didn’t believe me,” said Antonio Montejano, who was arrested on a shoplifting charge last month and found himself held on an immigration order for two nights in a police station in Santa Monica, Calif., and two more nights in a teeming Los Angeles county jail cell, on suspicion he was an illegal immigrant. Mr. Montejano was born in Los Angeles.

This year the immigration agency has been rapidly extending its leading deportation program, known as Secure Communities, with a goal of covering the whole country by 2013. Under that program, fingerprints of every person booked at local jails are checked against Department of Homeland Security immigration databases. If the check results in a match, federal immigration agents can issue detainers, asking local law enforcement authorities to hold a suspect for up to 48 hours.

[THIS IS NOT FUNNY BECAUSE WE COULD B NEXT THEY PASSED A LAW THAT IF THEY LABEL U A TERRORIST EVEN IF UR NOT THEY CAN DETAIN U WITHOUT HAVING A TRIAL OR REASON BUT THEN AGAIN HOW Many people know that one keep on rocking 2 ur lil waynes, an nikz, an rock ur way into 2 detainment camp one luv lee]

Has the government gone too far in it’s fight against illegal immigrants? Are these wrongful arrests worth the price of removing a few illegals from the country???