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Originally Posted by buckminsterfullerene
This is a very dangerous decision to make. How would they follow through with this. Certainly there are going to be officers that will try to use this to their advantage in order to get as much information out of a person based on a crime, but what if they make a mistake, assume someone is undocumented and interrogate them, try to use information and evidence derived from the interrogation and it turns out the person was a USC all along?
This has the potential of adding confusion to a topic that broken more than a few cases and let real criminals free much to the detriment of the community at large.
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http://www.justice.gov/eoir/vll/benc...amendment.html
^This isn't anything new. Once an Immigration Officer arrests someone, he's going to ask whether the person is a U.S. citizen. Anyone who knows what's good for him is going to tell the truth, conveniently filtering out U.S. citizens from such techniques (that is, unless the person can't prove it, in which case he's screwed). The alleged argument is that deportation proceedings are civil matters. I suppose they forgot to factor in the fact that they're dealing with people's lives rather than their money in these civil cases.