By Juan Montoya
After our post about the Memorandum of Understanding between the Brownsville Independent School District Police Dept., city police and and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), several of our readers wondered why.
"Is the district now getting in line with the Cameron County DA's Office and the feds to get in on taking people's stuff without due process. And what joint operations are they conducting?," asked one.
And, even more alarming to some, are the BISD cops now empowered to turn in students they suspect of being undocumented over to ICE?
The item reads:
41. Recommend approval of Memorandum of Understanding between Brownsville Independent School District Police Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Local, County, or State Law Enforcement Agencies for the reimbursement of Joint Operation Expenses from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.
Will there be civil forfeitures in which law enforcement takes people stuff without due process? And the BISD will profit from this?
Just what is included in the Memorandum of Understanding?
The BISD, like Cameron County (and unlike the City of Brownsville) does not post the backup information on agenda items so unless you get the full packet as do trustee and administration, the public won't know until the vote is taken on the MOU.
The MOU with BISD and BPD is so BISD can turn over students who commit crimes to BPD. Now are they asking to be able to turnover undocumented students to ICE for deportation?
We'll try to find out just what the responsibilities of the BISD police will be to ICE in return for forfeiture dollars. How much will they get for one student?
After our post about the Memorandum of Understanding between the Brownsville Independent School District Police Dept., city police and and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), several of our readers wondered why.
And, even more alarming to some, are the BISD cops now empowered to turn in students they suspect of being undocumented over to ICE?
The item reads:
41. Recommend approval of Memorandum of Understanding between Brownsville Independent School District Police Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Local, County, or State Law Enforcement Agencies for the reimbursement of Joint Operation Expenses from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.
Will there be civil forfeitures in which law enforcement takes people stuff without due process? And the BISD will profit from this?
Just what is included in the Memorandum of Understanding?
The BISD, like Cameron County (and unlike the City of Brownsville) does not post the backup information on agenda items so unless you get the full packet as do trustee and administration, the public won't know until the vote is taken on the MOU.
The MOU with BISD and BPD is so BISD can turn over students who commit crimes to BPD. Now are they asking to be able to turnover undocumented students to ICE for deportation?
We'll try to find out just what the responsibilities of the BISD police will be to ICE in return for forfeiture dollars. How much will they get for one student?
4 comments:
BISD does not give a shot about citizenship, a warm body is money in the bank. Come on you all are at least that smart.
No confidence in BISD "Police" Chief Oscar Garcia. The department he's supposed to run is a disaster. And I have always questioned why a school district has cops - security guards should suffice until experienced real-world police arrive on the scene.
It's about time the BISD police start enforcing the law of the land...If you do not like you are welcome to head south of the border to your dream land
The problem is people like BISD "Police" Chief Oscar Garcia are from "The Dream Land". Maybe after the 2016 Presidential Election they won't have an option to not go back anymore.
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