Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors To Consider Sheriff's Immigration Enforcement

Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) ^

[AZ GRAMMY]

Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors To Consider Sheriff's Immigration Enforcement and Deportation of Criminal Aliens

Please Attend Meeting At 9:30 AM on July 13, 2004

On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider a proposed agreement between the Sheriff's Department and the Department of Homeland Security. This would allow the Sheriff's Department to train six people to conduct interviews with foreign-born inmates in County jails, give the interviewers access to the Deportable Alien Control System, which is a federal computer database, to determine if the inmate is a convicted criminal alien or a previously deported criminal alien.

Please attend and speak up on this issue. If you are not able to attend, please call or fax your supervisor and ask them to approve this measure. The meeting will be held at 9:30 am at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, Room 383, 500 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, (213) 974-1411.

Gloria Molina, First District (213) 974-4111

Yvonne B. Burke, Second District (213) 974-2222

Zev Yaroslavsky, Third District (213) 974-3333

Don Knabe, Fourth District (213) 974-4444

Michael D. Antonovich, Fifth District (213) 974-5555

POINTS TO MAKE

* The federal Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently has only three officers assigned to county jails to determine if foreign-born inmates are convicted or previously deported criminal aliens. This program would increase staff by 200 percent.

* Sheriff's officials estimate about a quarter of the 170,000 inmates in the prison system each year are illegal immigrants. If all those inmates were properly screened, officials estimate they could recommend the deportation of up to 40,000 of them.

* Criminal illegal aliens cost county taxpayers more than $150 million a year and make up more than 25 percent of California's jail population. This program could result in a tremendous savings to the county.

* This program won't cost the Sheriff's Department any extra money. It will use existing personnel, and the computers and access to the federal databases will cost the county nothing.

[Servant of the 9]

give the interviewers access to the Deportable Alien Control System, which is a federal computer database, to determine if the inmate is a convicted criminal alien or a previously deported criminal alien.

Why in God's name shouldn't every law enforcement officer be required not just allowed to consult this database on each and every stop of any kind?

So9

[Howlin]

Let's all try to guess the outcome of this "meeting" as if we don't already know.

[truthkeeper]

They'll consider it for about 5 minutes. Then guess what they'll do?

[gubamyster]

ping

[SCalGal]

Well, Hahn already declared Los Angeles to be a mexican city....

[janetgreen]

Thanks for the ping. I'll contact Don Knabe tomorrow by phone.

[c-b 1]

I don't see anything coming of this. It says the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider a proposed agreement between the Sheriff's Department and the Department of Homeland Security.

"Consider," that is as far as it will go.

[lainde]

BTTT

[NewRomeTacitus]

Thanks for the ping. I'll contact Don Knabe tomorrow by phone.

That's the spirit! I'm ashamed of all the pessimism I've been reading lately. Not only does that accomplish nothing, it lets the swine believe they can get away with their crimes with impunity.

Pound them, hound them, confound them and, should that fail, round them up.