Posted on 11/13/2009 9:17:01 AM PST by Texican72
More than 22,000 illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions have been arrested in Texas through a 1-year-old program that links FBI and federal immigration databases, Homeland Security officials said Thursday.
About 12 percent of them, or 2,700 people, were charged or convicted of what authorities call "level one" crimes such as murder, rape, kidnapping or narcotics violations with a sentence of more than one year.
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Under the new system, fingerprints are run simultaneously through a national database to check criminal history and through a Homeland Security database to check the person's immigration status. All those arrested in jurisdictions using Secure Communities will have fingerprints checked in both databases, Homeland Security officials said.
"A key point is we do this for everyone," Morton said. "There is no distinction between citizen and noncitizen."
Morton said such blanket use would reduce racial profiling.
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The LIBERALS........
Good question
Deport them — to San Fransisco!
Felons are a left wing voting block. The democrats would fight this to the death the same way they fight voter ID to stop the illegal alien vote.
No Nobel prize for this crowd.
22,0000 ??? Is that some of that new math?
They probably borrowed the calculator Obama uses to calculate his jobs saved/created numbers.
22,0000 That’s the number they didn’t arrest and instead, signed them up for welfare.
....or possibly to vote.
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