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Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative
advancing the immigration dialogue
The Law Enforcement Engagement initiative (LEEI) was created to advance the dialogue towards common-sense immigration reform among policing professionals and for their voice of reason to be heard throughout America. The Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative works with professional law enforcement organizations and individual policing executives to educate the American people and its elected leaders on the real effects of a broken immigration system and its threat to our national security.
The public safety success of law enforcement requires that all members of our communities become engaged as our “eyes and ears” partners. An actively engaged and properly educated resident is one of the best tools in combating crime and terror and in making neighborhoods safe. A community cannot be healthy and safe if its members loose trust or are afraid of their law enforcement officers.
The Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative provides a medium for policing professionals to share their experience and expertise on the affects of victimization when victims or witnesses do not report crime because of fear and/or intimidation. Policing professionals recognize the need for securing our national borders and the need to detect, apprehend and bring to justice, regardless of their immigration status, criminals that commit serious and violent crime, prey on the weak or abuse other human beings.
Policing professionals recognize how crucial it is for them to be able to properly identify individuals who move about or reside in their community. They recognize the limit of their resources and that the enforcement of our laws requires various levels of education and expertise. The body of immigration law is one of our nation’s more complicated. The Chiefs of Police of America’s major cities and other law enforcement professional organizations recognizes that enforcement of immigration law should be done by properly trained and equipped federal agents and not by local or state police who are already stretched to the limit.
Our goal is to have the law enforcement voice heard in a common sense dialogue that builds the public support and political power necessary to enact comprehensive immigration reform, restores the rule of law and includes a proper legal status to those of the estimated 12 million immigrants working and living in the U.S. that deserve it. We do not believe that it is in our nation’s best interest to have any resident of our community who is a victim or a witness to a crime afraid to step forward for peace and justice.
America’s Voice Education Fund is proud to support the Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative as a part of our commitment to lift up the voices of those calling for substantive dialogue and real solutions on immigration. The Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative has been created to amplify the independent voices of law enforcement professionals and associations from across the jurisdictional, geographic and political spectrum who share that commitment. The participating individuals and organizations represent diverse viewpoints; they do not necessarily endorse the views expressed by other participants, or the views of America’s Voice Education Fund.
A Powerful Voice in Advancing the Dialogue on Common Sense Immigration Reform
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Sacramento, CA 95822
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