Now that AZ Has Approved Martial Law, They Want Federal Help Enacting It
OK, this one goes into the “It takes alot of balls” file.
The Arizona agency tasked with training 15,000 law officers to enforce the state’s controversial new illegal immigration law has asked federal authorities for assistance, but administration officials say it is unclear whether the government will help.
Lyle Mann, executive director of the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, says federal assistance is “critical” to what he describes as an unprecedented effort to prepare officers as soon as this summer to enforce the law, which gives local police authority to identify and arrest illegal immigrants
“Participation by federal authorities is critical in ascertaining how to implement a standard of enforcement,” says Mann, who made the request through the Department of Homeland Security‘s division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
So, now that Brewer is one step closer to creating her Aryan state, she and her cabinet think that the federal government’s assistance in training their officers is vital.
“Ninety days (to train officers) may be asking the impossible,” says Democrat Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, a member of the training board and critic of the law. “There are a huge number of very serious questions to be answered here, and 90 days is laughable.”
She’s also the well-intentioned governor (yes, that’s sarcasm) who whittled away the domestic partnership benefits, and then cited her appointment from God as the reason. She went on further to not that her efforts saved money on the state budget. Her efforts saved $3 million US, and her annual expenditure on benefits is $461 million. Way to go Jan! (more sarcasm)
My thoughts are the same as yours on this one: they made the mess, let them figure out how to clean it up. The problem is in that they won’t. Officers are going to get next-to-nothing in the way of training, be thrown out into the field as chaos is going to ensue.
IF it even survives the legal challenges that are mounting.
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