Re: your Aug. 23 article, “Immigration law will not be enforced at local level�:
Who does the mayor thing he is kidding? I read with disbelief that less than 1 percent of Simi Valley police bookings were found to be illegals. But when I got to Page 2 of the story, the other shoe dropped when I read, “Lack of Spanish-speaking officers is obstacle.�
I don’t want to overstate the obvious, but the fact that an arrestee can only speak Spanish should be setting off some alarm bells about citizenship. Wouldn’t an audit of the effectiveness of the police department’s ability, or willingness, to determine citizenship be more appropriate than bragging that you can’t tell whether the people you are booking are in the country legally or not? With the recent surge in property crime in our city, I would feel better if the mayor was bragging about how many criminals got deported rather than how many were returned to the streets.
— Jack Peters, Simi Valley
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