Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  pan971 writes:  huh--
this is funny. first, to answer questions on who decides what
the law enforcement offices can or cannot do is simple-- we have
a thing called the "constitution" in this country. and that
constitution decrees what the federal governments and what the
states can do. one of the exclusive federal powers is
"immigration and nationality".  therefore, the states, no matter
how hard they want to stick their noses in it, still cannot
enforce immigration matters. and they cannot police them either,
unless the federal government delegates some of the policing
authority to them.  right now obama is trying to do it and
passed a pilot program last week which will delegate some
policing authority to state police departments-- of course they
only chose states that can be trusted, having their acts
together. naturally the great state of tennessee, nor any of its
neighbors are included in the list. states on our side of mason-
dixon do not regularly show up in suc