I am a shadow

I just want to say thank-you to the police department of Montgomery, Washington, for doing your job. Protect and serve. Yes, to protect and serve everyone in the community. Not just the citizens and legal residents, because everyone is entitled to live a peaceful life in their homes. The job of the police is not to terrorize a group of people that is already being demonized by the likes of politicians and such.

“We don’t want our community members to think Montgomery County police conduct random raids that can result in the deportation of undocumented immigrants,” Baur said, adding that the support of all residents, including illegal immigrants, is necessary to report crime and solve cases.

I couldn’t agree more or said it better myself. I mean, really, why is that the anti-immigrants believe that transforming cops into immigration agents is going to solve the immigration issue. It is not. It is a band-aid solution. Undocumented immigrants will learn to live with whatever obstacles that you put in front of them. It is not a matter of wanting to break the law, but a matter of necessity. Taking the kids to school, going to work, buying the groceries, those are all activities necessary for the function of a family. Immigrants are not going stop doing that.

Nothing is gained by terrorizing a group of people. Nothing but their distrust and unwillingness to cooperate on actual criminal investigations, investigations that actually track down real law breakers who deserve to be in jail. That is who the police should be focusing on, not helping in the latest cheap illusion of solution of cont–er, I mean immigration raid. The police should focus on the protection of their community, of all members in it, everyone deserves to live in peace.