Police Voice Concerns Over a Directive on Immigrants

''I'm not sure how we're going to go about enacting it on the local level,'' said the chief, Mitchell E. Roth, adding that his 34 full-time officers do not routinely ask about immigration status. ''We have special-interest groups. We have to be very diplomatic...

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Published inThe New York times
Main Authors KAREEM FAHIM and DAVID W. CHEN, Kareem Fahim reported from Newark and David W. Chen from Trenton
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y New York Times Company 24.08.2007
EditionLate Edition (East Coast)
Subjects
Arrests
Attorneys general
Immigration policy
Law enforcement
Milgram, Anne
Noncitizens
NEWARK, Aug. 23
New Jersey
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Summary:''I'm not sure how we're going to go about enacting it on the local level,'' said the chief, Mitchell E. Roth, adding that his 34 full-time officers do not routinely ask about immigration status. ''We have special-interest groups. We have to be very diplomatic.'' ''A mutual assault situation: Who's the victim?'' Mr. [Shai Goldstein] asked. ''How do you ferret that out? A domestic abuse situation -- one spouse may want the other punished, but not deported. Is it going to have a chilling effect on reporting domestic violence?'' ''I do get a lot of people coming forward,'' Lieutenant [David Ackerman] said, ''but I don't know how many people are out there who are not.''
ISSN:0362-4331