Posted on 01/04/2010 4:01:53 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (MyFOX Atlanta) - The word appears to be getting out in Gwinnett County: If you're an illegal immigrant, don't get arrested. Because if you do, you could be shipped out of the United States.
The Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department has fewer inmates in its jail than at any other time in Sheriff Butch Conway's 13 years on the job.
He attributed the drop to a decrease in foreign-born inmates in the six weeks that the county has been part of the 287 (g) program, which allows local law enforcement agencies to team with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fight crime in their communities and conduct immigration investigations.
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The immigration bill introduced in Congress by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Mexico) would kill the 287 g program. Even some of the Dems are objecting to that.
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