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JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri -- Citing an “unnatural influx” of illegal immigrants, Gov. Matt Blunt on Monday ordered state troopers to start checking the immigration status of every person they arrest.
Blunt pointed to the case of an illegal immigrant from Peru who was charged in the Aug. 4 murders of three college students in New Jersey. The man already had been arrested for child rape and assault charges but was out on bail. Had law enforcement officers checked his immigration status, critics have said, he would have been detained and the killings would not have occurred.
Blunt said that while Americans are all descended from immigrants, there has been a recent flood of illegal immigrants who “openly flout the laws of the United States.”
The federal government has failed to act to curtail illegal immigration, and it’s time for Missouri to do something, he said.
Posted by tyne at August 28, 2007