Tuesday
Jul132010
In Vt., 'protect and serve' includes illegal immigrants
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 04:02PM Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley believes that when someone is a member of his community, it doesn't matter how the person got there. As the state of Arizona prepares to implement the strictest immigration law in the country, this college town set amid dairy country - where many farmers now rely on immigrant labor - has taken a different approach to illegal immigration. Middlebury police don't ask about immigration status, don't seek out workers who are in the country illegally, and have a tough policy against anything resembling racial profiling.

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