Deputies now able to deport illegal aliens

NFW DAILY NEWS ^ | 7/29/08 | S. Brady Calhoun

[quintr]

‘boout time!

[capt. norm]

One pet peeve in freeper-land, for me, is posts without location.

Yeah. The NFW in the headline is actually NWF with a couple letters reversed. It stands for "Northwest Florida" but you'd have to live here to figure that one out.

[Between the Lines]

Local deputies now are acting as immigration agents and will be able to deport illegal aliens from Bay County.

This is very poor reporting indeed.

The officers can now arrest them for being an illegal immigrant and hold them (without bond if they wish) until they can be turned over to the immigration court.

The problem is that the jails for the immigration court are overflowing. So the arresting jurisdiction will have to hold them until room becomes available. Our county has been part of this program for three years now and our jails are full. Here in South Carolina the entire state is set to join this program and they estimate that we will have to build three new prisons just to hold the illegals. If the state does not build these new prisons, our county will have to expand the jail. The alternative to building new jail space is to set bond for the illegals and this would put us back to where we started.

This is only good news for a county if the people in that county have the resolve it takes to detain these illegals and are willing to build the facilities it takes to do this.

[capt. norm]

More likely they simply arrest them and put them into the system (and then the system lets them back on the street with a promise to appear).

Nope. You've obviously never lived here.

They know about that game and they don't play it.

[Lurker]

I keep forgetting about that Federal law / State law thing

Oh goody, another opportunity to confuse my good friend DieHard....LOL

There are State Felonies, and there are Federal Felonies.

State Felonies, like Felony Murder for example, are punishable by more than a year in a State prison. Federal Felonies are infractions of Federal law which are punishable by a term of more than one year in a Federal Prison.

So while most murders are State Felonies, those are your garden variety murders, only rarely does murder rise to the level of a Federal felony. The murders committed at the WTC on 9-11 were Federal felonies because they were done as 'acts of terror' using 'weapons of mass destruction'. The murders committed by Tim McVeigh in Oklahoma City were also Federal Felonies which bought him a very speedy execution by our standards.

It used to be that there were so few true Federal felonies that the old expression "Why don't you make a Federal case out of it!" actually had some real meaning.

These days just about everything is covered by one Federal Law, Rule, or Regulation somewhere so the expression has become decidedly un-funny IMO.

I hope this has cleared things up, or not as the case may be.

Best,

L

[rightwingintelligentsia]

They should have been able to do that all along.

[rrrod]

A dirty little secret is local LEO have to apply to the Feds for this “right”. In most cases the state’s Senator can provide all the funding requirements.

In NC most local LEO could care less about illegals...till right before election day.

[devane617]

I did live there...many, many years...still it flew by me...

[devistate one four]

Any cop who does not enforce the law, should be fired.We have to get a handle on this now.
The same goes for mayors and govenors, If you take the oath live up to it. After all is said and done, your family name is on the line,past, present ,and future.

[CowboyJay]

We have a unit like this in CO, but it really doesn’t amount to much (resulted in less than 200 deportations last year). Going after people who hire illegals should be the main focus of any serious effort.

[NonValueAdded]

Nope. You've obviously never lived here. They know about that game and they don't play it.

I guess I didn't get the memo, then. Are you saying it is now National INS / ICE policy that illegal aliens are incarcerated and not simply given an appearance ticket for a hearing some six months hence? If so, that is great news.

[Bigg Red]

I thought the important point of the article was that LEO can take a course that allows them to act with federal authority.

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Yes, it is. Sorry we got sidetracked.

Happen in MD? Not a chance, I’m afraid. Lil’ Marty loves the illegals.

[TKDietz]

“Isn’t being an Illegal Alien in the US technically a serious crime in and of itself?”

Actually, no. It's the illegal entry that is a criminal offense, and it's not a particularly serious offense. It's just a misdemeanor I think punishable by something like a max of six months in jail. Illegal reentry after being deported is a much more serious, especially if the person was deported as a “criminal alien” after being convicted of a crime. These guys are looking at up to 20 years in a federal pen with no parole if they come back in after being deported.