ICE to expand illegal alien criminals program to more local jails

Posted Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:57 am
From this:
Federal immigration officials want to reach into the nation's jails to find more illegal immigrants and legal immigrants with convictions serious enough to merit deportation.

Julie Myers, assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the effort, called Secure Communities, will focus on violent offenders first.

ICE screens all federal and state prison populations but has access to only about 10 percent of the nation's city and county jails, according to the agency.

Myers said the federal government wants to include all local jails by coordinating immigration databases with city and county databases. She estimated that the effort will take three and a half years to complete. The program's first phase -- removing violent offenders -- will cost $930 million to $1.1 billion, according to an ICE fact sheet.
Apparently non-violent offenders will be able to get some form of early release by agreeing to be deported, which may lead to some form of revolving door. I didn't see anything that confirms that those involved in violent crimes will be required to serve their full sentence before being deported, but I'd at least hope that's the case. They'll also be expanding the 287g program.

Needless to say, a few illegal immigration supporters oppose the plan, such as Irving, Texas' Carlos Quintanilla (at the link) and Arnoldo Garcia, program coordinator for the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (link).

In related news, Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia is complaining about ICE taking a long time to respond to their 287(g) requests (link).

Comments

sidi (not verified)

Fri, 04/11/2008 - 05:43

I am ambivalent about this. It's common sense but if the removed just come right back it's obviously no cure-all. However, Jamiel Shaw was killed by illegal alien Pedro Espinoza immediately upon that gang member's release from jail. Even if most deported criminals will just come right back, some won't. I guess that's better than nothing. It's interesting that Pedro Espinoza is (reportedly) an alien but came here as an infant. Even though he was in jail for a violent crime and a gang member there are plenty of people (you know who they are!) who would have opposed his removal from the country and characterized it as ripping a family apart, he knows nothing of Mexico and no one there, America is the only home he knows, blah blah blah. Incredibly, I'm sure there are STILL people who would oppose deporting him upon release from prison even after conviction of murdering a boy. And if he were to come back in criminal violation of federal law, the LAPD's policy would be not to arrest him but wait for his next crime.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Fri, 04/11/2008 - 10:16

Its one more BS Line from our rulers so many non hispanic have been beaten to death inside our so called jails its a joke right now the so called U.S. Human rights people are investigating more murder by gang people inside our so called jails. So by putting more gang people from mexico inside the jail system to attack others who are inside for DUI Is somewhat funny to me, all this BS Is, is just to cover butt for now, the pigs know full well within 10 years human rights will mean mass murder of the American population by laws of the third world drug dealers, and by order of the new third world/one world rulers. Buy Guns.