Paul Chesser: Immigration enforcement in progress, need back up

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About 12 years ago, when I lived in Southern California, I had a co-worker — I’ll call him Matt (because that was his name) — who was a former police officer from Glendale, near Pasadena.

I remember him saying how many of the offenders he arrested were from other countries, and undoubtedly a lot of them were in America illegally. Matt recalled that, under law, he was not allowed to determine whether they were aliens or not.

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