INS and Police Cooperation
Romero champions a proposed Pomona ordinance which provides that police will be forbidden from providing information to INS officials regarding illegal aliens. A violation of this ordinance would subject the police to disciplinary action.
The last time I looked it was still a violation of the law to enter the United States without permission. How can a law-abiding person, such as I’m sure Romero is, not only condone people illegally violating our borders, but actually force the police to look the other way?
The fact that Romero has a Hispanic surname may explain her attitude but it certainly does not justify it.
I recognize that 95% of Romero’s column concerned police and INS raids which had an adverse effect on legal Latino residents. However, the proposed ordinance was not directed toward solving only that problem. The ordinance could have been crafted to solve the problem she was objecting to rather than hamstringing the police in abating a problem that is widespread in California.
FRANK WAGNER
Playa del Rey
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