Posted on 06/17/2008 5:56:43 AM PDT by Sprite518
The Georgia Department of Corrections transferred 433 felons to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings in 2007, the most recent year for which state and federal data are available. That's more than twice as many as the 189 handed over to the agency in 2002.
At least three child molesters who were illegal immigrants had served time in Georgia prisons but escaped the attention of federal authorities. All three were released back into the community.
Two or three times a week, air transports arrive at the Columbus airport to pick up detainees and take them to Mexico or Central America, Simonse said.
The overall effectiveness of the effort to remove deportable criminals is difficult to gauge, in part because there are as many as 450,000 foreign-born inmates scattered among 45,000 prisons and jails nationwide. Officials at ICE and the U.S. Department of Justice said they have no way of providing exact counts or the percentage who are illegal immigrants.
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BTTT
Give us your tired, your poor huddled masses, your perverted sex criminals, your murdering thugs...
In LA one illegal was in the jail four times and never deported when he was released. The last time he shot a high school kid who was walking down the street.
So, they need to be deported at some point.
The felons will be back soon.
“Get out of jail free”. It doesn't pay to be a citizen anymore.
Get Mexico to incarcerate them and then it'd be ok.
Frankly, I’m opposed to deporting them. Until our borders are effectively secured, thereby preventing them from returning tomorrow, illegal aliens, when found or arrested, should, IMO, be interred in work camps for entering the country illegally, whether or not they have committed any additional crime. They came to work...we’ll put them to work. Secure the borders first...then deportation. Putting the cart before the horse is costing us a fortune and making us less safe. With this get out of jail free card, how long before criminal American citizens pretend to be illegal aliens?
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Need a smile?
Sheriff Joe Arapio
Did that make you smile?
Just seeing that mans name always does it for me.
LOL...yep!
“So felons are let go because our prisons are being overrun by the illegal aliens? Unbelievable...”
Where does it say this in this article? This article is about how they are doing a better job of deporting illegal aliens convicted of other crimes. It doesn’t say anything about letting anyone go early. It says that after these illegals serve their time they are being deported.
I can tell you from personal experience that the feds are doing a better job of deporting those illegals convicted of crimes. A few years ago in my area they deported almost no one. Now nearly all of those convicted of felony offenses are deported and a lot of those convicted of misdemeanors are deported as well. What it's always come down to apparently is whether INS and now ICE had the resources to pick these people up and deport them . Usually they'd know the person was locked on state charges, and they'd even put a “hold” on them, but all too often they'd never come pick these people up and eventually the jail or prison would have to let them go. Immigration violations are federal matters. State and local governments have no jurisdiction over these matters and therefor they can't really hold people on these matters. When illegals are finished with their local charges, or local jail used to give the feds 48 hours to come and get them and if the feds never came they'd release them. Usually the feds would call the jail and say they had no one available to transport these prisoners and/or nowhere to put them and would instruct the jailers to go ahead and let them go. They'd “drop the INS hold.” I've seen that happen even on people convicted of serious felonies. It used to make me sick. But like I said, things have improved dramatically in that regard in the past couple of years. These people are being deported left and right.
Just FYI, I never saw illegal aliens getting treated better in the system than citizens. That sure never happened in my area. Usually they'd get worse deals in the end than regular white Americans. I was always puzzled by all these comments I'd read here about illegals skating on criminal offenses. The feds might not have always been good about deporting them, but local authorities prosecuted them every bit as hard as they'd prosecute citizens for their state crimes, if not harder. Local police, prosecutors and judges have no special sympathy for illegal aliens. The opposite is more likely to be true certainly in my area and probably in most others as well. Locals just can't deport these people for the feds.
Perhaps, but the feds are getting a lot more serious about prosecuting criminal aliens who enter the country illegally after having been deported. These felons who come back in are looking at doing serious prison time if the are caught. Before the feds would just deport these people again and again, but now they are prosecuting them and putting them in prison. That has to have some deterrent effect.
The worst scenario is in sanctuary LA where a guy gets arrested four times and released to the street. Illegal and gang member. Last time he shot a high school football star who was just walking down the street in daytime.
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