You Ask, Patch Answers: Police and Immigration

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Driving through town one morning, you may wonder if that vacant building you pass will ever be occupied, why there’s no stoplight at a certain busy intersection, how long it takes to complete a road project or one of a million other questions about your town.

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Send your queries to Jennifer.Lucarelli@patch.com or leave them in the comments section below, and I will do my best to dig up an answer for you. You also can call me at 508-330-7763.

This week, a reader asked how handle illegal immigrants that have no insurance and drive. Can they ask for there US documentation if not having them, turn over to ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)?

Shrewsbury Police Sgt. Alfred Pratt said that when a driver is pulled over, the police officer checks their driver's license. "If there is a problem with the license, then we detain the driver and check with ICE," he said. "If they want him detained, then we turn them over to ICE. Also, anyone arrested is fingerprinted, so we find out that way if there is an immigration problem and then we contact ICE then as well."

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