Thread: San Bernardino, CA: Immigration screenings at local detentio

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Immigration screenings at local detention center net more criminal aliens

September 5, 2008 - 3:10PM
BEATRIZ E. VALENZUELA Staff Writer
SAN BERNARDINO — The immigration screening operation at West Valley Detention Center has marked nearly as many criminal aliens for deportation during the first quarter of 2007 as the federal program did in all of 2005, according to officials.


The change of allowing local agencies to do their own immigration screening instead of waiting for a Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has paid off, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Sheriff Gary Penrod.


In 2005, ICE officials placed a total of 525 people on detainers for deportation. In 2007, Sheriff’s Custody Specialists were able to place 507 on the same detainers in only the first quarter of the year, officials said.


“The difference is that we are here all of the time and ICE agents would come to the jail about once a week,â€

don't know why we have to spend our tax dollars to house these people,â€