{"id":29087,"date":"2017-01-30T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29087"},"modified":"2017-01-30T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T00:42:47","slug":"im-not-going-to-do-it-police-arent-eager-to-help-trump-enforce-immigration-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29087","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I\u2019m not going to do it.&#8217; Police aren&#8217;t eager to help Trump enforce immigration laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20215 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/los-angeles-times-300x300.png\" alt=\"los angeles times\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/los-angeles-times-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/los-angeles-times-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/los-angeles-times.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-cindy-chang-staff.html#nt=byline\">Cindy Chang<\/a><span class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au_dv\">, <\/span><a class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-kate-mather-staff.html#nt=byline\">Kate Mather<\/a> and <a class=\"trb_ar_by_nm_au_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/la-bio-nicole-santa-cruz-staff.html#nt=byline\">Nicole Santa Cruz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"trb_ar_by_cl\" href=\"mailto:cindy.chang@latimes.com,kate.mather@latimes.com,nicole.santacruz@latimes.com?subject=Regarding:%20%22%27I%E2%80%99m%20not%20going%20to%20do%20it.%27%20Police%20aren%27t%20eager%20to%20help%20Trump%20enforce%20immigration%20laws%22\" data-role=\"sc_sEmail\">Contact Reporters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day after Donald Trump was elected president, two detectives walked up to a building\u00a0site in Koreatown. The pair was hoping to find someone who might have witnessed a motorist intentionally knocking down\u00a0a construction\u00a0worker.<\/p>\n<p>They introduced themselves to a group of Latino workers. The workers got up and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is coming,\u201d one of them said as he left.<\/p>\n<p>To Det. Brent Hopkins, the scene was a stark illustration of the difficulties he could face depending on how far President Trump goes in enlisting local law enforcement\u00a0to rid the country of people who are in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_ar_sponsoredmod trb_barker_mediaconductor\" data-adloader-networktype=\"mediaconductor\" data-role=\"delayload_item\" data-screen-size=\"desktop\" data-withinviewport-options=\"bottomOffset=100\" data-load-method=\"trb.vendor.mediaconductor.init\" data-load-type=\"method\" data-vendor-mc=\"\" data-mediaconductor-processed=\"true\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt is my job to investigate crimes,\u201d said Hopkins of the Los Angeles Police Department\u2019s Wilshire Division, who also serves on the police union\u2019s communications committee.\u00a0\u201cAnd if I can\u2019t do that, I can\u2019t get justice for people, because all of a sudden, I\u2019m losing my witnesses or my victims because they\u2019re afraid that talking to me is going to lead to them getting deported.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"1\" data-state=\"pagination_viewed\">\n<p>After Trump\u2019s unveiling last week of two executive orders that called for empowering local law enforcement officers to take on the duties of\u00a0immigration agents,\u00a0police officers and sheriff\u2019s deputies\u00a0across\u00a0the Los Angeles area said in interviews\u00a0that enforcing immigration laws is not in their job descriptions. Many expressed concerns that immigrants already wary of reporting crimes or being interviewed as witnesses will\u00a0retreat further into the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should be running to us, not away from us,\u201d said LAPD Deputy Chief Robert Arcos of Central Bureau, which includes Boyle Heights, MacArthur Park, Chinatown and other areas with many immigrant residents. \u201cWe are here to be their protectors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides, some officers said, they are too busy answering 911 calls, arresting robbers, stopping erratic drivers and solving homicides to add federal immigration enforcement to their to-do lists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have enough issues just trying to keep the peace anyway,\u201d said J.C. Duarte, a veteran LAPD officer in Northeast Division. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to create a wedge between immigrants and law enforcement. Whether they\u2019re here legally or not, there\u2019s going to be a fear generated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many officers said they believe their bosses\u00a0will resist Trump\u2019s directives, despite the president\u2019s\u00a0threat to withhold federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>The LAPD has long had a policy that forbids officers from initiating contact with a person solely to\u00a0ask about immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, hours after Trump unveiled his executive orders, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck reiterated that his officers would continue to focus on building relationships with city residents, regardless of where they were born. L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said his deputies do not ask anyone about their legal\u00a0status and that immigration enforcement remains a federal responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>In the state Legislature, Senate leader Kevin de Le\u00f3n\u00a0is championing a measure that would prohibit California police officers\u00a0from engaging in immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to be enforcing any immigration laws whatsoever,\u201d said Cmdr. Keith Swensson, who oversees the Central Patrol Division, which includes Compton and parts of\u00a0East and South L.A., for the L.A.\u00a0County Sheriff\u2019s Department.\u00a0\u201cThe whole concept seems to be overpoliticized, when in fact we\u2019re going to be doing the same thing we\u2019ve always been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The racial demographics of L.A County\u2019s\u00a0two largest law enforcement agencies\u00a0reflect those of the region as a whole. In\u00a0both the LAPD and the county\u2019s Sheriff\u2019s Department, nearly half of the sworn officers are Latino.\u00a0It is not uncommon for a police officer or sheriff\u2019s deputy to be an immigrant or\u00a0the child of immigrants. Duarte, the Northeast Division\u00a0officer, came to the U.S. legally\u00a0from Guatemala at age 2.<\/p>\n<p>During the presidential election, Trump found support among\u00a0some law enforcement officers who viewed him as\u00a0more\u00a0pro-police than his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. But locally, even some\u00a0officers who privately said they voted for him\u00a0are not eager to help with his immigration agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s executive orders call for the resurrection of Secure Communities, a program from earlier in Obama\u2019s administration that asked\u00a0jail officials to hand over inmates to immigration authorities, including inmates who had no criminal records and were guilty only of immigration violations.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump has not spelled out any specific plans to\u00a0enlist street officers in apprehending immigrants without legal status. The executive orders say that local law enforcement agencies will be empowered \u201cto perform the functions of an immigration officer \u2026\u00a0to the maximum extent permitted by law\u201d but provide no detail.<\/p>\n<p>An Arizona law, Senate Bill 1070,\u00a0tested the legal limits of what\u00a0immigration enforcement duties\u00a0police officers could perform. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down most of the Arizona law but let stand a provision that required police to check the immigration status of someone they had already stopped if there was \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d the person was in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump asks police agencies to perform immigration checks along the lines of the Arizona law, participation would have to be voluntary, because the\u00a0federal government cannot coerce local governments\u00a0to do its work, constitutional law scholars say.<\/p>\n<p>The funding component of Trump\u2019s executive orders, which involves\u00a0withholding federal funds to so-called sanctuary cities, could face legal hurdles, because courts could view it as\u00a0an underhanded way to force cooperation,\u00a0said\u00a0Hiroshi Motomura, an immigration scholar and professor at UCLA School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the LAPD doesn\u2019t want to be involved in immigration checks, the feds can\u2019t force the LAPD to do that,\u201d Motomura said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the specter of police officers checking residents\u2019 legal status has stirred anxiety among some immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>At roll calls, Capt. Martin Baeza of the LAPD\u2019s Hollenbeck Division\u00a0has been reiterating to his officers that their job is enforcing state laws, not federal immigration laws.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_embed\" data-content-id=\"92421501\" data-content-size=\"small\" data-content-type=\"story\" data-content-slug=\"la-me-california-jails-20170126\" data-content-subtype=\"story\" data-role=\"sc_item imgsize_ratiosizecontainer \" data-state=\"\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_media\">\n<figure class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_figure\" data-role=\"imgsize_item\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_img\" title=\"California police see dangers in Trump's illegal immigration crackdown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-588a283c\/turbine\/la-me-california-jails-20170126\/400\/400x225\" alt=\"California police see dangers in Trump's illegal immigration crackdown\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-588a283c\/turbine\/la-me-california-jails-20170126\" data-c-nd=\"2048x1365\" data-ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"400\" data-height=\"200\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related\" data-role=\"lightbox_metadata\"><a class=\"trb_embed_media_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-california-jails-20170126-story.html\"><span class=\"trb_embed_related_title\">California police see dangers in Trump&#8217;s illegal immigration crackdown<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>At community meetings, he tries to tamp down fears, answering questions that included one about whether internment camps, such as\u00a0those used to imprison Japanese Americans during World War II,\u00a0might arise again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI completely understand the anxiety that our community is having, because I\u2019ve lived that as a child,\u201d said Baeza, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was 2.<\/p>\n<p>Baeza\u2019s parents had green cards, but they still viewed the police with fear. His parents would tell him not to get into trouble\u00a0and not to have anything to do with the police, he recalled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"2\">\n<p>After the presidential election, the LAPD\u2019s Central Division, which includes Hollenbeck, held a series of community meetings to reassure immigrants\u00a0that police officers are there to help them, not deport them.<\/p>\n<p>But comforting words\u00a0can only go so far when people fear being separated from their families and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>At a community meeting in South Los Angeles on Thursday night, a man asked if he could be deported for a traffic ticket. LAPD Officer Marcela Garcia assured him that would not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Inglewood Police Officer Chris Beckman said that when he investigated sex crimes, he had a hard time getting some Spanish-speaking victims to come forward because they feared being deported.<\/p>\n<p>If police officers do take a role in immigration enforcement, some victims \u201care\u00a0not going to want to deal with the police whatsoever,\u201d Beckman said.<\/p>\n<p>Some police officers and sheriff\u2019s deputies said that if their bosses tell\u00a0them to ask people about immigration status, they will\u00a0have to obey the orders.<\/p>\n<p>But Duarte, the LAPD officer in Northeast, said\u00a0he would \u201cflat out just refuse.\u201d\u00a0He\u00a0plans to retire next year and has little to lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point in my career, I\u2019d take whatever consequence came down the pipe,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cSo what? Go ahead and suspend me for 10 days. 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