It’s official: San Antonio police will not inquire about citizenship status…“We are not interested in enforcing immigration laws,”
RT.com
30 Oct, 2015
San Antonio, Texas, the seventh-most populated city in the United States, will not ask suspects about citizenship status during arrests, according to the city’s police chief. Until this week, that policy was only unofficially enforced.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said that his department’s policing manual will now reflect this approach, a move that will “codify our practices on the street.”
“We are not interested in enforcing immigration laws,” McManus said in a brief to the San Antonio City Council’s governance committee, KSAT reported. “I can’t state it enough or emphasize it enough. We do not care what your immigration status is.”
McManus said the decision to make the policy official is about community trust and credibility. Without this trust, an undocumented individual may think twice before reporting a crime, he added.
“Without that, we wouldn’t have a community to work with. We’d be working with both hands tied behind our backs,” McManus said, adding that, regardless of one’s immigration status, “if you break the law, no matter what the crime, we are going to arrest you.”
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