what a concept...
Posted on 04/11/2008 4:23:34 PM PDT by kellynla
Federal authorities expect to identify and deport more than 200,000 immigrants who are convicted criminals serving time in prisons and jails across the country, the country’s top federal immigration enforcement official said Monday.
The effort to speed the deportation of foreign-born criminals is part of a campaign by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to help federal and state prisons reduce the costs of housing immigrants, the official, Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security and head of the agency, said in an interview.
In 2007, Ms. Myers said, the agency, known as ICE, brought formal immigration charges against 164,000 immigrants who are behind bars nationwide for crimes committed in this country. Many of those immigrants are still in the United States and are also slated for deportation this year, she said. By comparison, in 2006, the agency identified 64,000 immigrants behind bars, most of whom were deported.
The big increase in deportations will place “a significant burden,” on ICE’s detention centers, she said, and on the airplanes, mostly from the Justice Department, used by the agency to fly immigrants back to their home countries. Last year, Congress authorized $200 million for programs to deport immigrant criminals.
Under current law, immigrants convicted of crimes are deported only after serving their sentences in this country. Foreigners behind bars, Ms. Myers said, include large numbers of immigrants who were legal residents, but lost their legal status as a result of being convicted of crimes.
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Seven and a half “TRILLION” dollars? We should be buying all of Mexico with all that money.
“Seven and a half “TRILLION” dollars? We should be buying all of Mexico with all that money.”
No thanks, we have enough of Mexico’s problems already. LOL
we should tattoo a target on their forhead and explain to them that if they return we will punch their card
Er - Unless I’m missing something, the amount is on the order of $5 Billion a year assuming 200,000 Illegals at $25K/head/year.
But you are right, they’ll be back, not only because of the porous Border but because they are willing to commit crimes that no American wants to commit. :-)
And the figure from the Bureau of Prisons is 300K foreign criminals are incarcerated in state & federal prisons. That doesn't even account for the number of illegals in local jails across America
Great, so now illegals get a “get out of jail for free” pass? Well, that’ll sure teach them to come here and commit crimes!
I believe ICE is deporting them to their homeland and turning them over to their homeland authorities...now of course if you would prefer to incarcerate the 300K foreign criminals instead of 300K American criminals, we can continue to do that!
You think they won't be back here in a week?
The Mexican government is deeply saddened.
It won’t do a bit of good until the WALL is finished! They’ll just walk back in.
“You think they won’t be back here in a week?”
If the Feds don’t secure both borders they will..
next question...
you conveniently ignored my point...
“now of course if you would prefer to incarcerate the 300K foreign criminals instead of 300K American criminals, we can continue to do that!”
what a concept...
If I thought that freeing up space in the prisons meant that our system would suddenly say "now that we have space we'll start giving out meaningfull sentences", then there would be something to debate. I don't think that would happen.
“If I thought that freeing up space in the prisons meant that our system would suddenly say “now that we have space we’ll start giving out meaningfull sentences”, then there would be something to debate.”
“meaningful sentences?”
well one things’ for sure, we’ll never incarcerate AMERICAN criminals with your “meaningful sentences” as long as our prison system is overpopulated with 300K of other countries’ criminals now will we...
But you keep throwing those softballs and I’ll keep knockin’ em out of the park.LOL
FYI...don’t know if you saw this recent article:
Mass deportations coming for jailed illegal immigrants
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999493/posts
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