Advocates say that even though immigration enforcement is the responsibility of federal law enforcement ― not municipal ― many undocumented immigrants are hesitant about interacting with local police officers, fearing they may be deported and separated from their families.
Advocates say that even though immigration enforcement is the responsibility of federal law enforcement ― not municipal ― many undocumented immigrants are hesitant about interacting with local police officers, fearing they may be deported and separated from their families. .
"Any interaction with law enforcement has created a fear in the community, even though law enforcement is there to help," she told me.
He said the hearings had revealed many episodes when detention of immigrants who were not dangerous criminals had led to mistrust of the local police, even though immigration enforcement is handled by federal authorities.
Even though law enforcement agencies were grounding crop-dusting planes at the time, the auditors said, the Forest Service decided that the risk of its tanker plane being stolen by terrorists or other criminals was not even worth examining closely.
An Air-India plane from London was escorted into Kennedy International Airport yesterday by fighter jets, even though law enforcement officials said they had already discounted a tip that one of its 378 passengers resembled a terrorist.
Affected schools said they were reviewing records of current students and graduates who may be connected to the scheme — even though law enforcement officials have not charged any students with crimes.
Under the Bush proposal, the requirement would not be triggered until plant upgrades reached a cost of 20percentt of the value of the plant -- even though agency enforcement officials recommended that the trigger be set no higher than three-quarters of one percent.
Since 1909, that has been the minimum penalty for each tree taken illegally from pristine state forests in the Adirondacks and the Catskills, even though law enforcement officials can ask for up to three times the estimated value of those trees.
Even though law enforcement officials still have no direct evidence that he was involved in the bombings, he has been at the center of an intense internal discussion at the F.B.I. over whether the New York office should take jurisdiction of the bombing case away from the Washington field office, which has jurisdiction over crimes against Americans in Africa.
