Posted on 04/10/2015 1:52:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood was hiking along the bluffs overlooking Bakersfield last year when he got a call from Gov. Jerry Brown..
"What are you trying to do to me?" the sheriff said Brown asked him.
"What are you trying to do to me?" Youngblood shot back.
That kind of stance has won him enemies in California's immigrant-rights movement and frequent comparisons to Joe Arpaio, the brash Arizona sheriff notorious for his workplace raids and ID checks.
Youngblood, 64, said he isn't trying to make headlines. The Vietnam War veteran, who grew up working in the potato sheds around Bakersfield, said he's happier hiking or riding his quarter horse, Sparky.
He lives in the same modest suburban neighborhood where he grew up, on Bakersfield's now heavily Latino Eastside, and bristles at accusations that his policies encourage racial profiling, pointing out that a third of his deputies are Latino....
A Republican in one of the reddest counties in the state, Youngblood had riled the Democratic governor when he announced that his department would defy the Trust Act, a law signed by Brown that restricts cooperation between local law enforcement officials and federal immigration agents.
The sheriff said the law put him in an impossible position, stuck between a federal program that relies on local jails to hold inmates who might be deportable and a state law that says inmates in jail for low-level crimes can't be detained past their release dates.
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My cousin was a Kern County deputy sheriff.
Good luck to this guy and his battle.
I grew up in San Bernadino County and they were always trying to get my dad to join the Chino Police Department.
I lost an uncle, swimming the Kern river on a bet.
My mother is from that area - picked and sorted peaches in the summer to put herself through college. You know how hot it gets there.
Two of my cousins barely survived “tubing” down the Kern River. I didn’t grow up in the area but visited frequently, including trips to the river - we were told it was treacherous and to stay out. I’ve always been terrified of it and it’s incredible how many people have died in it.
Rivers are tough and can stress or kill any of us.
Ronald Reagan’s life guard career was all on a river, and it was back in the wild days of the 1920s and early 1930s, it must have been rough duty.
I live in Bakersfield. People still die all summer long in the river. It’s usually stupid Mexicans from Los Angeles. There are signs all over in English and Spanish. They get in anyway.
How is this sheriff on signing off on concealed carry permits?
The employees of the MSM are aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and the bratty ideological litter of same. MSM employees childishly refuse to show the courtesy of acknowledging that ILLEGAL aliens are the subject of our concerns -- not IMMIGRANTS -- the MSM employees are the out-and-out liars.
[California is] a state where politicians have passed bills that . . . encourage unlawful immigration.
I wanted to document ILLEGAL alien crime but as a very informative study (Effects of Illegal Immigration Upon Crime In the United States) pointed out
"[T]he United States government does not readily keep statistics with regard to crimes committed by illegal immigrants. . . there exists a legal obligation [on federal agencies] . . . to report accurately [; e.g.,] the Office of Immigration Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Government Accountability Office . . . the agencies [provide] raw statistical data with regard to incarcerations, criminal removals (deportations) and arrest information involving illegal immigrants [but as for data on] nationwide criminal prosecutions and convictions of illegal immigrants . . . no such information is kept and reported by the government . . . [in fact illegal alien crimes regularly result in] the criminal removal process rather than prosecuted with the intent to incarcerate them.
However the study did find that federal government information about removal in lieu of prosecution and incarceration of illegal aliens can be seen in the
These provide raw statistical data because the statistics are broken down between criminal removals and non-criminal removals. Example: Table 41. ALIENS REMOVED BY CRIMINAL STATUS AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEARS 2003 TO 2012
| Total | Criminal | Non- Criminal |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 211,098 | 83,731 | 127,367 |
| 2004 | 240,665 | 92,380 | 148,285 |
| 2005 | 246,431 | 92,221 | 154,210 |
| 2006 | 280,974 | 98,490 | 182,484 |
| 2007 | 319,382 | 102,394 | 216,988 |
| 2008 | 359,795 | 105,266 | 254,529 |
| 2009 | 391,932 | 131,837 | 260,095 |
| 2010 | 383,031 | 169,656 | 213,375 |
| 2011 | 388,409 | 188,964 | 199,445 |
| 2012 | 419,384 | 199,445 | 219,939 |
| 2013 | 438,421 | 198,394 | 240,027 |
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