The number of Los Angeles County jail inmates identified as suspected illegal immigrants nearly doubled in the year since the Sheriff's Department started investigating their legal status.In other news, I didn't find my car keys until I started looking for them.
...The number red-flagged to face possible deportation once they serve their sentences went from 3,050 in 2005 to 5,829 last year.The article also treats us to a quote from Hector Villagra, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California's Orange County office, and informs us that "immigrants rights groups" tried to prevent the program from being started. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 for it, with Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and Gloria Molina (a true racial demagogue) against.
The numbers skyrocketed from 658 in the second quarter of 2005 to 1,685 in the third quarter of 2006.
...Federal officials estimated that about 40,000 of the 170,000 inmates who go through L.A. County jails each year are in the United States illegally.
Thu, 02/08/2007 - 01:35 · Importance: 1
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Not so fast, they've only checked the status of about 1/4 of the inmates, the numbers could grow far higher should they ever check the entire population.
Just yesterday a recently released felon/gang member/illegal alien parolee was killed in a scuffle with police while resisting arrest and carrying a .45 cal handgun-all felonies http://www.examiner.com/a-551563~Witnesses_dispute_police_account_of_LA_man_s_death_after_arrest.html
Posted by: Smitty at Feb 8, 2007 10:59 AM