Role of Police in Immigration Law

Introduction

As with most government agencies, state and localized law enforcement departments should contend with restricted resources. Most policeman agencies could habitually manage with more cash, more staff, more gear, more prison space, and so forth. The identical retains when it arrives to immigration enforcement.

Local prisons may assist as detention space for retaining illicit aliens. This devotes the BICE added bed space where illicit immigrants may be kept next the time localized policeman have apprehended them and until immigration agents take custody. This short-term custody of illicit aliens is a built-in stopgap measure.

But detaining illicit aliens, even ...