Thread: Arrests Of Immigrants With Criminal Records On The Rise

But most people arrested had no criminal histories, which prompted outcries from immigrant rights groups.

If they're here illegally, then they have criminal records.

The only difference between a criminal and an illegal, an illegal just has not been caught YET.

If you steal 100.00 from someone, are you still a thief, even though you have not been caught yet ??????

Your still a thief.

Do you have a passport ? NO
Did you pass through customs? NO
Do you have a green card? NO
Where were you born?????
Do you have a birth certificate? NO

OK, 4 out of the 5 questions there are common sense!!!

I live in a foreign country and I cant go anywhere with out my passport (with Visa) or my immigration card. Having neither is a trip to jail, interrogation and or immediate deportation! No trial, no jury, no judge. LOL Phone call to Embassy and if your registered. They treat illegal immigrnats here to jail for 10 years and it aint no country club! Overseas jails make Sheriff Joe Arpaios jails look like country clubs. (The tents that is)

November 5, 2009

Immigration agents arresting more criminals

Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics reflect a new priority on nabbing those who are in the country illegally with a criminal history.

BY CINDY CARCAMO
The Orange County Register

Immigration agents in charge of chasing down illegal immigrants who are avoiding deportation orders are increasingly focusing their efforts on arresting those with criminal records.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics reflect a shift in the new administration's focus compared to the last three years.

For instance, three years ago only 22 percent of those arrested by fugitive operations agents in the Southern California area had criminal records.

During this fiscal year, more than 50 percent of the 3,039 arrests in the same area had a criminal history.

Beefed-up manpower, stronger partnerships with local law enforcement and a stronger directive from the top to focus on those with criminal backgrounds who are in the country illegally have led to the change, said Robert Naranjo, assistant field office director. He helps lead the agency's Los Angeles Office of Detention and Removal Operations.

Naranjo, whose teams focus on finding those who are in the country illegally with standing deportation orders, said stronger ties with local law enforcement have led to good leads and arrests.

"Criminal aliens who pose a threat to public safety are a public priority," he said. "We are prioritizing the criminals but we are continuing to pursue cases involving non-criminal immigration fugitives who have ignored court orders to leave the country."

While agents will continue to arrest those in the country illegally when they run across them during operations, Naranjo emphasized the agency's priority.

"Like any law enforcement agency we have a finite number of resources, so we have to prioritize," he said.

The ramped up manpower is especially evident in Orange County, where there are now two teams -- one in Santa Ana and another in Laguna Niguel -- dedicated to tracking down people who have ignored orders by an immigration judge to be deported. That's a departure from 2003 when there were no teams in the county. Instead, local operations were run out of Los Angeles.

The two teams were deployed in 2007 to Orange County. In addition, Los Angeles now has eight teams, compared to only two six years ago.

Agency officials have long said they have focused on arresting and deporting people with criminal convictions who ignored deportations orders.

However, immigrant rights activists had accused the agency of not doing what they claimed. The issue came to a head after the Migration Policy Institute highlighted the agency's data, which showed that most of those arrested had no criminal records.

While heartened by the recent numbers, some immigrant rights activists, say they’re waiting to see what the next fiscal year’s numbers will reveal.

“There is clearly a change in the numbers and we welcome that but we want it to be even more focused so they can have lower number of arrests and a much higher percentage of criminals swept up in fugitive operations,â€

A criminal is a criminal is a criminal..

Whats the difference. Lower numbers, but a higher percentage of illegals with criminal records. Why the hell were they released in the first place for and not deported back when they were first arrested. Thats like saying, I am going to throw this fish back, its too small....

Today we are only going to pick the bad apples, since the rest of the apples.... blah blah blah..

GET THEM ALL! They are are criminals if they are here illegally!

Many people are either too ignorant or too politically correct to figure out the fact that many illegals have criminal past and therefore come here illegally. Thnik about it logically. Who would pay a smuggler $6,000 or more if they can apply for a greencard legally and Mexicans can get work visas under NAFTA. Many companies bring Mexicans in on work visas which fall under NAFTA.