Posted on 05/21/2007 8:01:19 PM PDT by kellynla
SANTA ANA All of Orange County's large cities should follow the sheriff's department lead and train officers to do immigration checks in their jails, a grand jury said today.
In a report on Sheriff Mike Carona's new program that partnered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the panel said the cities of Anaheim, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Orange, Fullerton and Garden Grove should have similar plans.
Carona won approval for his plan from the Board of Supervisors in March, although many civil rights groups were opposed to it because they feared it would lead to racial profiling.
Under an agreement with ICE, 14 deputies were trained to check the immigration status of inmates using federal databases. The plan also allows deputies to create a file on a foreign national and notify federal authorities that the inmate should be detained and possibly deported.
Costa Mesa already has one full-time federal ICE agent in its jail, which was spearheaded by Mayor Allan Mansoor after the sheriff's plan became public.
Anaheim has had a part-time federal agent since January, thanks in part to the sheriff's plan freeing up ICE agents, who had been working in the county jails. Police Chief John Welter, in a March memo, said he doesn't believe the city needs a full time agent because the current part-time officer is seeing the majority of people arrested by Anaheim officers.
Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu said he supports Welter's report and believes the system currently in place is working.
"I feel pretty confident that the amount of traffic we have in our city, our ICE agent is doing a fine job in our jail," he said.
But Eileen Garcia, an anti-illegal immigration activist, liked the grand jury's report,
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If the border were not so porous, I'd agree. But I don't want drug smugglers, thieves, and gangbangers being released into Mexico and then be back the next week because the corrupt Mexican system would do nothing to them.
Petty and non-violent criminals should be deported as soon as their status is known. Just doing this to DUI's would put a dent in.
Well since you have been in involved in R.E., Im sure I dont have to inform you of the vast amounts of R.E. that has been purchased by illegals in California. And mortgage banks, savings & loans, R.E. brokers & sales people and EVERYONE in the industry have ALL been enablers in the corruption
Hello....there are three types of enemies of Patriots...slave traders, slave masters and slave enablers.
Real Estate...I have been in this business 37 yrs. and would not, and will never have a real estate person to my house for a meal....I find them repulsive and useless, greedy and like a ship passing in the night...irrelavant.
I know there is a NAU push, but what could Bush have signed that would in any way be legal?
http://www.ailf.org/ipc/infocus/2006_achievingsecurity.shtml
Just like NAFTA had little to do with fair trade for America, the "North American Security and Prosperity Partnership" has little to do with American security and prosperity, it's for Mexico and the slave labor corporations.
First there was NAFTA and CAFTA, then this turkey (signed only by the three "leaders"), not approved by the American people, then the Kansas corridor from Mexico to Kansas, now the immigration amnesty is being pushed (IF YOU WANT THE SHOCK OF YOUR LIFE, READ THAT).
All "agreements" will be financed by you and I and the rest of the American taxpayers, and the amnesty agreement, if passed in its disastrous entirety, will cost us trillions of dollars. It's all for Mexico, just like everything else America is becoming.
I hope everyone is writing, faxing, telephoning and making personal visits to their Senators and Reps, screaming bloody murder. These deals will murder America, and anyone in the Senate or House voting for amnesty should be removed from office (and tarred and feathered).
Ya...ya, that's why.
As far as I'm concerned, "civil rights groups" in this country have lost all credibility.
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