Posted on 02/25/2011 7:48:18 AM PST by La Lydia
MARTINEZ -- The federal immigration agency has finally linked all California police agencies to reveal immigrants -- legal or not -- arrested for violating laws and subject to deportation. The action, to be announced Friday morning in Southern California, enables U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to tag arrests and travel to all of the state's county jails to pick up immigrants accused of committing crimes. In essence, local police, willingly or not, have become an arm of the federal immigration agency. The fingerprints of everyone arrested by local police are now sent automatically to an electronic database reviewed by ICE, whose agents go to county jails to pick up immigrants thought to be deportable, including illegal immigrants and legal immigrants who may have committed a crime.
Since San Diego County became the first in the state to join in spring 2009, and the 57 other counties gradually followed suit, immigration agents say the network has helped bring in and deport 32,645 immigrants from California, including 23,712 who were convicted of a crime.
The program has the support of most of the Bay Area's nine county sheriffs, who oversee the local jails. More than 6,400 people arrested by Bay Area police departments have been delivered to ICE custody in the past year...
"It's not a program I'm enthusiastic about because an arrest is not a conviction," said Richmond police Chief Chris Magnus. "It's clear there's a very, very broad net of people who are getting swept up."
Magnus was surprised by the figures for Contra Costa County, which joined the network in April and has the Bay Area's highest number of immigration arrests and deportations... In the four-month period ending Jan. 31, only Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties had more immigration arrests than Contra Costa....
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
open borders ping
Now all we need is the will to actually use it...
Finally, the people of California are getting tired of the high unemployment and the unnecessary crime.
I used to live in Nevada County, Calif.
My neighbors were both employees of the Sheriff’s dept.
Illegals would get incarcerated for a variety of reasons, including drug busts in the Tahoe National Forest.
When the sheriff’s office would call ICE for pickup after their local time served, there was absolutely NO ANSWER at the phone number they were given. Sometimes they got a recorded message. Either way, ICE NEVER came & gathered up the perps.
The sheriff had no choice but to turn them loose after they had served their time. This was done over & over again.
When the wife retired, she said she was beyond disgusted.
Ping!
In essence, local police, willingly or not, have become an arm of the federal immigration agency
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WOW
what a concept...
Arrest criminals...
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