Illegal immigrants in Arizona must get right to post bail

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[dware]

PHOENIX – A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down a voter-approved Arizona law that denies bail to immigrants who are in the country illegally and have been charged with a range of felonies that include shoplifting, aggravated identity theft, sexual assault and murder.

[apillar]

The governor should come out and say, in compliance with the federal court order, illegals now may post bail, to be set at $1,000,000,000...

[beethovenfan]

But our Marine gets no bail in Mexico.

[Ray76]

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[stephenjohnbanker]

LOL!

I like your bail number.

[Oliviaforever]

The Bill of Rights and the 8th Amendment are for citizens.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Okay, they can’t be denied bail, but the court can set it sufficiently high as to ensure that anyone with a high flight risk (such as an illegal alien) can’t make it.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Obama hates the military, and is trying to destroy it.
If a soldier doesn’t desert his fellow troops, and join the enemy, Obama will not help.

[rktman]

WHAT! He wasn’t offered a bail bond? Geez, maybe we ought to treat illegals the same way when they trespass on to our property. Has the lyin’ king made any attempt to recover the Sgt.? Maybe john f’n kohn-heinz-kerry could work a deal. You know, offer some free sail board lessons or a ride on his out of state yacht. Well her out of state yacht.

[W.]

When the courts overrule the voice of the people, we’ve got a problem...

[dware]

When the courts overrule the voice of the people, we’ve got a problem...

They've been doing that for decades. Apparently, it's not too much of a problem, because I've not seen anything done about it yet. I personally think it's a problem, but in general, it seems Americans are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable.

[Mike Darancette]

The judge can set bail but no bondsman will post it.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

These tables are not totally germane but they are from official sources about "immigrants" (ILLEGAL aliens most likely near 100%); included is a table showing a count of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities. Also there is information about how the feds are suppose to pay some of the costs suffered by locals keeping themselves safe from ILLEGAL alien criminals.

Department of Justice’s (DOJ) State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) dollars received by states, counties, etc. to cover part of the costs here

United States Government Accountability Office GAO Report to Congressional Requesters CRIMINAL ALIEN STATISTICS Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs March 2011 GAO-11-187

Criminal Alien Statistics Appendix III: SCAAP Criminal Alien Incarcerations in State Prisons and Local Jails (Corresponds to Fig. 4) This appendix provides additional details on figure 4: Number of SCAAP Criminal Alien Incarcerations in Each State.

Table 8: Number of State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) Criminal Alien Incarcerations in Each State

State	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Alaska	77	87	-	93	107	101	87
Alabama	98	113	102	214	259	295	313
Arkansas	493	488	486	788	1,007	1,353	1,342
Arizona	10,941	11,985	12,200	13,268	14,613	18,357	17,488
California	85,210	91,614	89,381	93,048	99,189	102,121	102,795
Colorado	5,761	5,857	6,968	6,487	7,174	7,340	7,574
Connecticut	409	422	432	476	469	481	517
District of Columbia	48	107	33	96	168	251	432
Delaware	40	49	99	57	44	38	36
Florida	10,383	11,473	12,416	16,203	15,186	16,935	17,229
Georgia	2,319	2,889	3,075	3,449	4,361	6,062	7,371
Hawaii	101	171	179	174	198	253	286
Iowa	659	591	492	523	691	543	501
Idaho	1,238	1,214	1,315	1,250	1,262	1,134	1,271
Illinois	4,967	7,271	7,528	7,499	8,335	11,114	10,677
Indiana	553	953	1,138	1,410	1,534	1,684	1,793
Kansas	973	1,090	841	1,048	1,043	1,252	1,328
Kentucky	681	652	692	626	623	1,139	1,343
Louisiana	236	213	174	172	228	204	246
Massachusetts	1,897	2,509	2,789	2,778	2,639	2,731	2,523
Maryland	1,730	1,488	1,644	1,635	1,971	2,369	2,710
Maine	35	53	60	119	103	100	406
Michigan	1,723	1,523	1,736	1,831	1,829	1,850	1,700
Minnesota	1,594	1,418	1,049	1,472	1,866	2,193	2,140
Missouri	725	786	607	661	707	805	723
Mississippi	72	66	100	78	78	183	342
Montana	19	41	50	42	54	39	24
North Carolina	4,084	4,753	6,126	6,297	7,439	8,150	8,948
North Dakota	29	28	41	37	55	43	46
Nebraska	1,082	1,064	1,142	737	1,328	1,424	1,754
New Hampshire	167	164	116	106	103	104	185
New Jersey	5,455	5,085	6,006	6,305	8,434	9,693	9,971
New Mexico	1,732	2,220	2,507	2,067	2,021	2,675	2,112
Nevada	4,957	4,923	5,623	5,369	6,605	6,148	6,918
New York	16,130	14,536	14,286	12,962	12,138	13,192	11,096
Ohio	756	792	901	924	1,240	1,777	3,879
Oklahoma	1,751	1,429	1,397	1,993	2,471	4,128	1,666
Oregon	2,056	3,464	3,892	4,307	4,755	5,158	3,609
Pennsylvania	1,414	1,162	1,232	1,516	1,615	2,054	2,169
Rhode Island	663	400	352	402	429	359	421
South Carolina	925	1,117	1,472	1,721	2,649	2,051	3,750
South Dakota	292	267	317	352	486	547	93
Tennessee	764	1,148	1,196	1,409	1,630	2,499	1,993
Texas	32,127	31,047	27,980	30,689	33,221	36,065	37,021
Utah	2,338	2,574	2,316	2,395	2,648	2,018	3,438
Virginia	2,432	2,882	3,743	3,298	4,554	5,819	4,968
Vermont	20	24	25	17	20	28	13
Washington	5,668	5,375	4,891	5,164	6,050	6,384	5,976
Wisconsin	2,174	2,362	2,592	2,724	2,756	2,882	2,690
West Virginia	5	6	8	-	-	22	5
Wyoming	75	63	56	49	59	71	65
TOTAL	220,078	232,008	233,803	246,337	268,444	294,218	295,983

federal prison population Table 1 Prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, December 31, 2000–2011

Year	Total	Federal*	state	Male	Female
2000	1,394,231	145,416	1,248,815	1,303,421	93,504
2001	1,404,032	156,993	1,247,039	1,311,053	92,979
2002	1,440,144	163,528	1,276,616	1,342,513	97,631
2003	1,468,601	173,059	1,295,542	1,367,755	100,846
2004	1,497,100	180,328	1,316,772	1,392,278	104,822
2005	1,525,910	187,618	1,338,292	1,418,392	107,518
2006	1,568,674	193,046	1,375,628	1,456,366	112,308
2007	1,596,835	199,618	1,397,217	1,482,524	114,311
2008	1,608,282	201,280	1,407,002	1,493,670	114,612
2009	1,615,487	208,118	1,407,369	1,502,002	113,485
2010	1,613,803	209,771	1,404,032	1,500,936	112,867
2011	1,598,780	216,362	1,382,418	1,487,393	111,387
			Percent change
Year	Total	Federal*	state	Male	Female
Average annual
2000–2010	1.3%	3.3%	1.1%	1.3%	1.7%
2010–2011	-0.9	3.1	-1.5	-0.9	-1.3

Note: Jurisdiction refers to the legal authority of state or federal correctional officials over a prisoner regardless of where the prisoner is held.

^*Includes inmates held in nonsecure privately operated community corrections facilities and juveniles held in contract facilities. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program, 2000–2011

federal prison population

Drug offenders still make up more than 46 percent of the federal prison system.

Immigrants are the third-highest category of offenders, at 11 percent.

more than 80 percent of immigration defendants convicted in federal court in 2010 received a prison sentence

[Politicalkiddo]

“A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down a voter-approved...”

I’m shocked. This never happens.

[aomagrat]

Maybe it’s time for the voters to start striking down some judges.

[W.]

I’d say. Those people weren’t put in positions of power to ignore the people or piss away our rights, they work for us! When they don’t listen, they need firing!