[South Texas:]Sheriff asks for 'tent city' to temporarily house inmates

The Brownsville Herald ^ | May 12, 2006 | SERGIO CHAPA

[SwinneySwitch]

"The local setup would be similar to those being used in Maricopa County, Ariz., where Sheriff Joe Arpaio opened the nation's largest tent prison in 1993,...."

If you build it for 10,000, Sheriff Omar, then the Texas state law will make you keep 1,000 beds free at all times! Idiotic!

[SwinneySwitch]

Sheriff Omar Ping!

[TomGuy]

Excellent!!!

A week or so ago, I saw an article about illegals being caught -- and released (doh!) near Springfield, Missouri -- excuse: "they didn't have any room in the local jail".

Maybe the Sheriff of Maricopa County is inspiring many other lawmen to finally starting doing the job the FEDS won't do.

The whine/excuse has been "no place to put them". Someone on FR posted that, if tents were good enough for our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were certainly good enough for illegals and criminals caught here in the US.

AMEN.

It if takes a tent city in every county, go for it!!!

[CindyDawg]

Huh. That's right down the street from a piece of property I'm looking at. Maybe I can get a better price:')

[texastoo]

The temps have already been 105 degrees.

[coconutt2000]

The idea of a prison island hasn't been used in a long time. There are plenty of uninhabited islands where violent criminals can be sent to "colonize" and live however they want to. No cells, no walls - except those that they build themselves. Minimal and very tasteless food, unless they grow their own for variety.

I wonder how long it will take for criminals to beg to return to their nice, cozy prison cells, three meals a day, and no possibility of parole.

[Kakaze]

" If you build it for 10,000, Sheriff Omar, then the Texas state law will make you keep 1,000 beds free at all times! Idiotic"

If its a temporary facility the 10 % of free beds and tents would just have to be in storage not deployed. So you buy the extra and when you need to cycle out the used tents and cots for the new ones in reserve. You get a better deal by buying more to begin with and if needed you have gear to loan out during emergencies.

I say go for it.

[SwinneySwitch]

We had 110 degrees on Wednesday!

[cardinal4]

A week or so ago, I saw an article about illegals being caught -- and released (doh!) near Springfield, Missouri -- excuse: "they didn't have any room in the local jail".

I have a little inside info on this bust. After they were released, they found out one of them had been convicted in AZ for child rape, and another had previously deported for a gang shooting. ICE is now looking all over for these two. Greene County, where it happened, has a huge illegal population that rivals that of KC and STL. We are not a border state, but we are getting overrun, too..

[texastoo]

I really love the hot weather but not the electric bills.
Mine were the highest last summer of all.

[TomGuy]

We are not a border state, but we are getting overrun, too..

Nearly every state is. 12 million have to go somewhere. And that is the low estimate of the actual number here, with tens-of-thousands more coming in every month.

[Former Fetus]

That's about the forecast for Southern Iraq. So, once again, if it's good enough for our soldiers it's good enough for our criminals! BTW, the prospect of spending the summer in a tent in the Texas sun may discourage illegals from going there.

[Former Fetus]

I'm getting all worked up at the idea of using tent cities for the illegals. Think about it, you keep them there for the summer, or until it starts to cool off, then deport them back to Mexico. At that time, you let them know that if they return, they'll get to enjoy the tents for a whole winter. How many would take their chances to live in a tent during one of Texas northerns?

[ClaireSolt]

Forget the tents. Put them right on busses and ship them back to the border. Do not pass go.

[Former Fetus]

You put them in buses, they are back by the end of the week. They spend the summer in a tent in Texas... well, they just may think it over. They spend a winter in a tent in (northern) Texas, they won't come back! BTW, while in the tent cities they could be made to work to pay for the "room and board" so that would not be a concern.

[citizen]

If you build it for 10,000, Sheriff Omar, then the Texas state law will make you keep 1,000 beds free at all times! Idiotic!

So set up a tent big enough to hold 1000 cots set end to end and side to side. There would be no need for linens, latrines, dining tables or even security.

Some liberal judge wouldn't like that probably but it would be 1000 "free" beds.

[McGavin999]

The temp is just as hot here in Arizona, those tent cities are great. There is less recitivism as a result of them.

[texastoo]

Many don't use air conditioning here. I don't know how they do that but they do.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Sweat Backs!

[devane617]

I have been looking at buying a vacation home on South Padre Island, which is in Cameron County. I have decided to put off the purchase because of the escalating issues revolving around Illegals. I would estimate that it is 90% Hispanic in Cameron Count( Brownsville, TX ) and to communicate you need to know Spanish.