Immigration officials attack police chief on Mexican issues - Articles - CAIR

A spokesman for a Colorado immigration reform group has blasted the Glenwood Springs police chief for providing the city’s community center as a venue today for the Consulate General of Mexico to issue its Consular ID card to Mexican nationals living in the region...

Outraged Aspen resident Mike McGarry, Western Slope coordinator for the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (CAIR), wrote a three-page letter to Glenwood Springs Police Chief Terry Wilson after he heard that tax dollars would be used to pay fees for the use of the community center.

In the letter, McGarry calls Wilson’s actions “reckless, arbitrary and outrageous,” and says the “rogue cop” should be investigated by the state’s top officials.

Wilson says he only acted as an intermediary in arranging the use of the community center after being asked by the city manager and a city council member to inquire about available space for today’s daylong event. Wilson said it’s unclear whether money from the city’s general fund will pay a fee for the use of the community center....

McGarry says only illegal immigrants [illegal aliens] have any use for the cards because Mexican nationals legally living in the region generally hold green cards. And, there’s no way to verify the information on the cards, he said.

“It doesn’t necessarily tell who the person is,” he said. “... The documents they do use are all junk.”

Carl Rusnok, regional communications director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said his agency holds no position on the ID cards, which do not serve in any way to identify a person as an American citizen.

“The perspective is, essentially, that the Mexican government has a right to distribute identification cards to its citizens,” Rusnok said....