Thread: NC-Study: Minor Offenses Getting Illegal Immigrants Deported

Study: Minor Offenses Getting Illegal Immigrants Deported

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RALEIGH, N.C. - A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows most illegal immigrants arrested by law enforcement in North Carolina are being deported for minor offenses.

The authors of it said 287(g) is intended to prioritize policing serious and violent crimes, but that's not what's happening.

"The study found that the majority of unauthorized immigrants are deported for driving-related offenses, not serious or violent crimes," wrote researchers Hannah Gill, Ph.D., assistant director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and Mai Nguyen, Ph.D., assistant professor in UNC's city and regional planning department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Gill also is a research associate at UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.

A University press release said the authors will present the study March 26 in a free public conference at UNC held by the Latino Migration Project. The project, sponsored by UNC's Institute for the Study of the Americas and Center for Global Initiatives, seeks to understand the impact and implications of the expanding Latin American presence in North Carolina.

Researchers found that of everyone booked through 287(g) from 2007-2009 in the study counties, 86.7 percent were charged with misdemeanors and 13.3 percent with felonies.

"I personally have no problem with getting rid of people who are convicted felons; people who have been found guilty of this crime," said Tony Asion, who is Executive Director of the activist group El Pueblo. "The reality is - that's not what we're doing. We're focusing on a specific violation because coming across the border is not a crime; it's a violation. We're going against a specific violation and saying ‘those people are the ones we don't want here.'"

According to a news release, authors calculated first-year costs for Alamance County at $4.8 million and Mecklenburg County at $5.5 million. Those costs include local officers' salaries and their ICE training "to enforce immigration law," its Web site says. Training is for four weeks at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, ICE Academy, in Charleston, S.C.

Departments that have implemented 287(g) said it's there for a reason.

"If they are found to be illegal ... they are turned over to ICE to make whatever decision they need to make. To me: that's not a waste of taxpayer's money," Sheriff Donnie Harrison, who is Sheriff of Wake County. "At least we're finding out who's in our country and who's in our county that's undocumented or illegal."

For more on the conference, "Latin American Migration: Transnational Perspectives, Regional Realities," visit http://isa.unc.edu/migration/ConferenceMain.asp.

The study is available for downloading at http://isa.unc.edu/migration/resources.asp.


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But isn't being in our country illegally a MAJOR offense, worthy alone of deportation?

I don't see the problem with that, they are here in violation of federal laws and most state laws and need to be deported. Let's step it up!

All illegal aliens must be deported not just some. ALL.

These open borders advocates truly believe that "only" being here illegally is not worthy of deportation.

Minor Offenses Getting Illegal Immigrants Deported

The offense is being in this country illegally! In other words, they are not being deported for committing minor offenses (so what if they were, they're illegal). Rather, the commission of a minor offense simply brought them out of the shadows and made them visible to law enforcement, hence deportation.

If a person wanted for murder stole a pizza and was arrested as a result- and later convicted and sentenced to death - you wouldn't say he was sentenced to death because he stole a pizza! Then again, maybe they would!

More propaganda on the part of a corrupted, socialist MSM, intented to drum up sympathy for illegal invaders!

The project, sponsored by UNC's Institute for the Study of the Americas and Center for Global Initiatives,

Get it "Study of the America'sand Global Initiatives", these people have no rights under our constitution, the 1986 and 1996 immigrtion Nationality Act says they are all to be deported ( thats how they sold us the last two amnestys) but that is not the agenda of the UN. NAU, OWO, CFR, Bilderberburg group , NAFTA agreement or the progressives in our congress and state governments.

We have so much working against us on this up comming CIR we had better all get involved and fight the next battle with all we have in us.

Originally Posted by noyoucannot

These open borders advocates truly believe that "only" being here illegally is not worthy of deportation.

"We're just poor illegal immigrants who want a better life. We're good people doing nothing wrong."

Yeah, right, except stealing jobs, benefits and identities from American citizens.