From KTRH-740:
The Houston Police Department’s crackdown on crime in the southwest part of town leads to some confusion over whether officers are cracking down on illegal immigrants.
HPD’s mobile command unit, which is essentially at police station on wheels, is being moved today from an apartment complex off Fondren over to Sharsptown mall.
HPD Fondren division captain Bruce Williams tells KTRH that when they first rolled the mobile command unit out, there was some concern that they were using it to help round up illegal immigrants.
Williams says, “They thought we were doing some sort of enforcement with immigration…we’re not only not doing that…we’re prohibited from doing that.”
HPD does have its (un)official sanctuary policy (memo, general order, guideline, whatever) to think of, you know. And we certainly wouldn’t want any law and order stuff to get in the way of a memo written 14 years ago.
