POV: Enlisting State Police to Enforce Immigration Law a Mistake

Authors

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-20-2015

Publisher

B.U. Today

Language

en-US

Abstract

Reversing the policy of his predecessor Deval Patrick (Hon’14), Governor Charlie Baker announced on June 2 that the Massachusetts State Police will now be permitted to detain suspected noncitizens. Baker insists that without this collaboration he has “concerns about restricting law enforcement’s ability to do their job.” But enlisting the state police to enforce federal immigration law is a costly mistake.

Recommended Citation

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, POV: Enlisting State Police to Enforce Immigration Law a Mistake , in B.U. Today (2015).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/120

Publisher URL

http://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/pov-enlisting-state-police-to-enforce-immigration-law-is-a-mistake/