State Police Sign Immigration Training Agreement

Arkansas State Police troopers are to be trained by federal immigration agents on how to examine and detect forged identity documents. State police spokesman Bill Sadler said Tuesday the agency signed an agreement the previous day with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to train troopers in the field and radio operators. Sadler said troopers would be able to examine documents "that would normally be carried by a citizen of Mexico" to find fakes. Sadler said troopers would leave further investigation to federal immigration agents.

Sadler said the state did not discuss having a task force similar to one making immigration arrests in northwest Arkansas.