05-12-2011, 06:03 AM
Black wrote:
I'm not convinced there's a profit motive or that snatching undocumented immigrants off the street is a significant motive here. Where I live they set up operations like this to effectively cordon off a gang territory when shootings/killings have been going back and forth for a few days. Usually they call them "seat belt checks."
Legality aside, I appreciate any activist effort to try to preserve our constitutional rights.
There's a long history of behavior by Escondido police that has absolutely nothing to do with crime other than illegal immigration. Escondido has maybe 3 or 4 murders a year, and fairly low property crime. What they do have is a majority population that is Latino. ICE agents ride in police cars on patrol there, something that doesn't happen in most cities. They use these "sobriety checkpoints" to find illegal aliens and to impound cars, it's been going on for years, and I'm glad to see this get some daylight.
Here's more info...
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/jul/14/esc...n-agents-/