Tucson Adult Entertainment: Illegal Immigration is a Confusing Position for Police
Proactive law enforcement leaders and administrators throughout the nation clearly know now that they have many obligations far beyond the scope that they may have imagined or perceived only a decade ago. Adequately understanding the metamorphosis of traditional policing to a model of anti-terrorism policing initiatives, and the true sophistication of this new transnational threat is not easy. The reality is they are tasked today with a more global approach to crime and interdiction that uniquely challenges skills, resources and personnel.
More so on the southern borders at this time is the illegal immigration threat that also manifests itself with the terrorism threat. Not being soothsayers police must be able to determine immigration status of suspected human traffickers, narcotraffickers, assassins/enforcers, weapons smugglers, and transnational criminal recidivists that routinely return sometimes just days after being returned to their country. Police would of course need “reasonable suspicion.” The majority of these criminals will not necessarily be “obvious” in their modus operandi.
The recruiting, transportation, and eventual harboring of “trafficked” persons by force, as well as for prostitution and forced labor and servitude, must be confronted on the frontlines.