Posted on 05/20/2009 5:50:02 AM PDT by kellynla
President Barack Obama has asked Congress for a 30 percent increase in funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) “Secure Communities” program – a program launched in March 2008 by the Bush administration to help local jails identify inmates who are in the United States illegally so they can be deported when their prison sentences are completed.
A 2008 fact sheet about the program reported that ICE, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security, checked the immigration status of “100 percent” of inmates in state and federal prisons, but only 10 percent of the more than 3,000 local jails in the United States were checking to see if criminals in their facilities were in the country illegally.
Obama included in his proposed 2010 budget $200 million for the program, a 30 percent increase from last year’s funding.
Congress allocated $1.4 billion for ICE criminal alien enforcement for fiscal year 2009, according to ICE.
“Secure Communities” allows local law enforcement access to FBI and ICE fingerprint (biometric) databases for use in determining inmates’ immigration status. Inmates who have not been fingerprinted by federal or state agencies will not be identified through the program.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (AP Photo) Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said that deporting illegal aliens who have committed crimes would be a priority under her leadership.
“That sounds very simple, but it’s historically not been done,” Napolitano said to reporters and immigration officials on Jan. 29.
ICE statistics, however, show that the U.S. government has consistently removed criminal illegal aliens from the country. From Oct. 27, 2008, to April 12, 2009, more than 2,000 “highest priority criminal aliens” were identified, and more than 2,500 criminal aliens were removed from the United States using biometric information, according to DHS.
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You mean they don't KNOW how many are illegal? Hello?
And at a conservative estimated of $25K per, it is costing American taxpayers between $7.5 BILLION to over a TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to incarcerate other countries' criminals...and just think of all the AMERICAN criminals we could incarcerate if we just secured BOTH BORDERS and deported ALL the foreign criminals! 11/2012 won't come soon enough for me!
Semper Fi, Kelly
BIG PING!
There, fixed it. =)
It would be a lot easier and cheaper not to let illegals into the United States in the first place!
Obama Expands Bush Administration Program to Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens
Well since all illegals are criminals I guess that means we will deporting them all?
“It would be a lot easier and cheaper not to let illegals into the United States in the first place!”
No Shiite! LOL
But ya have to first “take out the trash” before you can even begin to “keep the house clean.”
ROTFLMAO!! I see you have real keen sense of humor - you and I will get along greatly!
ping
“Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (AP Photo) Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said that deporting illegal aliens who have committed crimes would be a priority under her leadership.”
But no money (fence!) for stopping them from coming right back it. Janet ‘Nappin’-at-the-alamo’ is a disgrace.
Sending illegals back to Mexico merely means the American taxpayers are picking up half of a round trip ticket.
Unless our borders are secured this is the scenario.
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