Posted on 02/05/2009 4:30:01 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
Federal immigration officials flagged for deportation 915 foreign-born inmates at the Gwinnett County jail during a 26-day surge that ended on Thursday.
Of the inmates identified as being in the country illegally, 489 had a previous criminal history, said Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway.
Officials from the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the results during a joint press conference Thursday at the conclusion of a targeted enforcement effort that began Jan. 12.
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Our company helped build a large addition at the Gwinnett County Jail a few years back. I saw more Mexicans there (both inmates and construction workers!) than I saw when I vacationed in Cancun.
Same old horse s###, different day.
great. i wish they did this in fulton.
And this is “new” policy? Why wasn’t this done sooner? I can tell you why. It is because these politician were scared of what the AJC (”Urinal and Constipation”) newspaper would have called them if they had followed the law.
Now things have changed. Zero is going to be responsible and the African American paper of record in Atlanta is more than willing to put their previous pro-immigration ideology aside so as not to embarrass their Messiah. We are in a recession and the sooner they can push these illegals out of here so the “right kind of people” can keep or get a job, the better.
Change...ain’t it great?
Oh Boo-Hoo!!!
Maybe that’s 917 jobs that will open up for AMERICANS!!!!!!
I say SEND THEM HOME and build a bigger fence to KEEP THEM THERE!!!!
PS I live in GA!
And Forsyth.
They are just not mexican, I went down the street in Cartersville Ga, a few weeks ago, they was a private contractor working down town, one white guy and fifteen Latinos and that was a contract on a city job.
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