On Mon, 03 May 2010 15:34:18 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> Well, as the same person explained it, when he said he was **not** going
> to enforce the law, was, "Before this, if we found someone we felt was
> likely to be illegal, we handed them over to the border patrol (I assume
> this means the Mexican one), now they want me to put them in jail, waste
> tax payers money figuring out if we need to do something *then* turn
> them over to the same people. And, if I don't, I can be sued?"

Handing over to border patrol would be the US Border Patrol, not the 
Mexican border patrol.  That's part of US Immigrations & Customs.

At least that's my understanding.  But he raises a good point; the 
analysis of the case I've read, though, talks about specific 
constitutional violations (more than just the 4th, as I recall).

Jim

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