For Cops Who Want to Help ICE Crack Down on Illegal Immigration, Pennsylvania Is a Free-for-All

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Without guidelines or oversight, some officers are using traffic stops to question Hispanics and turn over undocumented immigrants to ICE.

by Dale Russakoff and Deborah Sontag for ProPublica April 12, 4:59 a.m. EDT

This story was co-published with the Philadelphia Inquirer.

It was Easter morning in central Pennsylvania, and Luke C. Macke, a state trooper, was patrolling I-81 for speeders, swervers, texters, and seat-belt shirkers. Shortly before 8 a.m., he clocked a Ford Econoline van going 81 in a 65-mph speed zone near Carlisle.

Inside the van were 10 Latino men returning to New York from a two-day Alcoholics Anonymous conclave in Georgia. Many were dozing, and they startled awake when Macke, having asked the driver for his license and registration, swung open the van’s rear door and demanded everyone’s “papers” — passports, visas, work permits.

It was not the first time, and not the last, that Macke, 35, with nine years on the state police force, converted a routine traffic stop into an immigration arrest. In 2017, he turned over at least 19 undocumented immigrants to federal deportation officers after interrogating them about their legal status and detaining them without warrants, reporters for ProPublica, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer, found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/pennsylvania-immigration-ice-crackdown-cops-free-for-all


Just fuck due process and the Constitution................after all it was written in the Commonwealth state 250 years ago

[DonCoquixote]

1. I wish I was surprised

just like I was so surprised about Pennsylvania's Voting in 2016. I am not because I saw too many sons and daughters of white immigrants forget the way their parents were treated. They sure like was union benefits, but they made damn sure that no brown or black people were allowed in the union, much less into their neighborhoods. As someone who lived in that state for a few years, it truly saddens me, because while Dixie had about 400 years to build a culture of bigotry and wealth worship, the people in PA enjoyed a lot of the benefits that liberals fought for. It says a lot that trumps current secretary of commerce is the same guy the close down Bethlehem Steel, a.k.a. that place that starred the decline of that "white working-class" but supposedly put King Trump on the throne.