Local agencies reassure immigrants, emphasizing state law over federal threats – WICS (Springfield)

"None of those threats can really be made effective in a town that isn’t going to cooperate with them because state law is what applies. We follow state law. State law says we don’t ask for someone’s immigration status. We don’t use immigration status as the sole instrument for detaining somebody," said Ricardo Diaz, director of the New American Welcome Center at the University of Illinoi.
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Hello, Indiana!
1 year ago

New American Welcoming Center. I’d be interested to know how many tax dollars they get to welcome people that don’t want to learn English and try their best not to assimilate and keep their native cultures, contrary to America as they may be.

mqyl
1 year ago

“… emphasizing state law over federal threats.” Huh. This seems to imply that federal deportation of illegal immigrants isn’t based on law.

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