Political Quotes

“This amendment would expand the scope of this already bad bill to include campus police and school resource officers under the term ``law enforcement officers.'' Unfortunately, this amendment makes a bad bill even worse while highlighting one of the many flaws in the bill. First, the fact that Mr. Norman felt the need to file this amendment to begin with just highlights the lack of clarity around this bill. As we have discussed, this bill will subject any inadmissible immigrant to mandatory immigration detention for merely being arrested or charged with assault on a law enforcement officer or first responder, but the bill lacks any definition for what is considered a first responder. Mr. Norman was clearly concerned with this as well and felt the need to make sure that campus police and school resource officers were included. Unfortunately, Mr. Norman's amendment does not bring any additional clarity to the definition of first responder, and it even adds another undefined term, ``school resource officer.'' Now, Mr. Norman could easily have remedied this by choosing the definition that exists in title 34 of the U.S. Code, but for some reason he did not. States all over the country use different definitions for school resource officers. They have different duties and functions depending on the State, so this amendment raises far more questions than it begins to answer. On top of the poor drafting, this amendment expands an already bad bill and makes the bill worse.…”