Thread: MPI:Detain Only Illegals Convicted of ‘Serious crimes `

Liberal Group Advises Administration to Detain Only Illegal Aliens Who Have Already Been Convicted of ‘Serious Crimes’
Friday, February 04, 2011
By Penny Starr


The Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a liberal immigration advocacy group, is asking the Obama administration to scale back its 287 (g) program, which allows trained state and local law officers to enforce federal immigration law.

In the report Delegation and Divergence: A Study of 287 (g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement, released this week, the MPI said an analysis of the program showed that it was not employed uniformly across the country, leading to “negative impacts on immigrant communities.â€

More about the MPI.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-226996-.html

Will this group accept responsibility for IAs that came in contact with LE only to be released then commit a major felony at a later date? I'm thinking monetary compensation to victims families.

here is the study.
the link is broken on purpose

http://www. migrationpolicy.org /pubs/287g-divergence.pdf


and there is video on the release of the report

http://events.powerstream.net/002/00592/20110131MPI/