Memo: Local Police Can Enforce Immigration Laws

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(AP) NEW YORK The Department of Justice believes that state and local police have the authority to enforce federal immigration laws. That’s according to a government memo released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The ACLU said the Justice Department opinion makes the unprecedented legal argument that state and local law enforcement officers can arrest anyone who violates a federal law.

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The ACLU said the memo, by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee, stretched the definition of local law enforcers' roles so far that it could be used to justify giving them the right to enforce the U.S. tax code, environmental rules and other federal laws.

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