Thread: 304,000 Inmates Eligible for Deportation, Official Says

304,000 Inmates Eligible for Deportation, Official Says

By JULIA PRESTON
Published: March 28, 2008
At least 304,000 immigrant criminals eligible for deportation are behind bars nationwide, a top federal immigration official said Thursday.

That is the first official estimate of the total number of such convicts in federal, state and local prisons and jails.

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie L. Myers, said the annual number of deportable immigrant inmates was expected to vary from 300,000 to 455,000, or 10 percent of the overall inmate population, for the next few years.

Ms. Myers estimated that it would cost at least $2 billion a year to find all those immigrants and deport them.

This week, Ms. Myers presented a plan to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security intended to speed the deportation of immigrants convicted of the most serious crimes by linking state prisons and county jails into federal databases that combine F.B.I. fingerprint files with immigration, border and antiterrorism records of the Homeland Security Department.

In an interview on Thursday, Ms. Myers said the plan would bring “a fundamental changeâ€

Many immigrant convicts are naturalized United States citizens who are not subject to deportation.

I feel this is something that needs to be changed. You are suspposed to be of good moral character to become a citizen and if you were acting moral to get citizenship then be gone with you. Send them back from where they came. Let them commit the lifetime of crimes where they came from and not here.

Dixie

citizenship should be immeadiatly revoked and striped from the individual.

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

citizenship should be immeadiatly revoked and striped from the individual.

I agree!

Originally Posted by cvangel

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

citizenship should be immeadiatly revoked and striped from the individual.

I agree!

Me too!!!!

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie L. Myers, said the annual number of deportable immigrant inmates was expected to vary from 300,000 to 455,000, or 10 percent of the overall inmate population, for the next few years.

Ms. Myers estimated that it would cost at least $2 billion a year to find all those immigrants and deport them.

Two billion a year to find them and deport them--they are INMATES and are in CUSTODY!

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin