What a great move...New Hampshire police in two different towns are charging illegal aliens with trespassing...why didn't I think of that?
Of course, there are critics...calling it an abuse of local authority...give me a break
Police chief Richard Gendron of Hudson said the federal government had failed to protect the borders and he would continue to charge illegal immigrants.
"There is a good possibility we will issue more citations," Gendron told Reuters. "If you come into this state and you are an illegal alien or immigrant, you don't have the right or the privilege to be here."
Gendron said it was New Ipswich police chief Garrett Chamberlain who prompted him to start issuing citations in Hudson when federal agents did not show much interest in taking custody of illegal immigrants caught in New Ipswich.
Chamberlain went to a local prosecutor and they decided to use the trespassing statute, the Washington Post said.
Claire Ebel of the New Hampshire American Civil Liberties Union said the police were overstepping their authority by "misusing a statute to enforce federal law that they have no jurisdiction to enforce."
"They are the Northeastern equivalent of the Minutemen," she said, referring to an armed private militia in Arizona that patrols the border with Mexico.
Right on...
DR
