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12-14-2007, 12:09 AM #1
Va. No-Bail Proposal For Illegal Immigrants To Be Scaled Bac
Va. No-Bail Proposal For Illegal Immigrants To Be Scaled Back
POSTED: 2:28 pm EST December 13, 2007
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia State Crime Commission has decided it's not feasible to deny bail to every illegal alien accused of a crime.
Commission leaders said Thursday that they'll meet with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to draft a list of offenses that would warrant automatically denying bail to illegal immigrants.
Commission chairman David Albo of Fairfax County said it wouldn't be possible to build enough jails to detain every illegal alien arrested for minor offenses like being drunk in public. The goal of the no-bail proposal is to keep illegals from fleeing to avoid deportation after trial.
The proposal is one of several dealing with illegal immigration that the commission will recommend to the 2008 General Assembly.
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12-14-2007, 12:50 AM #2
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Commission chairman David Albo of Fairfax County said it wouldn't be possible to build enough jails to detain every illegal alien arrested for minor offenses like being drunk in public.
It won't take long before illegals get the word and leave they area.
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12-14-2007, 05:22 AM #3
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Virginia panel urges ICE training for police
By Seth McLaughlin
December 14, 2007
RICHMOND —The Virginia State Crime Commission yesterday approved a measure calling on Gov. Tim Kaine to pursue federal training for Virginia State Police officers that would allow them to enforce immigration laws in some circumstances.
Mr. Kaine, a Democrat, has long opposed state police entering into the 287(g) training with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. His spokesman, Gordon Hickey, yesterday said the governor thinks "there is no reason the state should step in when the federal government does not do its job."
"As the governor has often stated, the state police, the [Department of Motor Vehicles], the corrections department are all enforcing the law," Mr. Hickey said. "They do what they can to help out with ICE. They are already doing their part under state law."
The crime commission proposed that state police be given authority to enforce federal immigration laws in the course of investigating violent felonies, drug offenses and gang-related crime.
"It's more political than substance because everyone agrees we can't tell the governor what to do," said Sen. Kenneth W. Stolle, Virginia Beach Republican and vice chairman of the crime commission.
Virginia is home to an estimated 259,000 illegal aliens, according to a recent report by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The crime commission passed 16 recommendations that will be forwarded as a legislative package to the General Assembly to take up when they convene for their 60-day session on Jan. 9. The 13-member commission is composed of Democratic and Republican lawmakers, a retired state police superintendent, a defense lawyer and a commonwealth's attorney.
The commission also recommended a presumption against bail for most criminal illegal aliens and proposed giving localities more federal and state money to create additional jail space to hold nonviolent illegal aliens awaiting deportation.
Mr. Stolle said the state did not have the resources to deny bail to every illegal alien police arrest.
"Before we spend all of our resources on incarcerating illegal immigrants who have committed drunk-in-public, urinating-in-public or some other minor violation, we have to realize that we don't hold a lot of sex offenders without bond, we don't hold rapists without bond, and sometimes we don't hold murderers without bond," Mr. Stolle said.
Officials said that so far this year, Virginia law-enforcement officials contacted ICE more than 12,000 times regarding possible illegal aliens who had been arrested and that only 694 detainers were issued.
James Towey, executive director of the crime commission, said the state does not know what happened to the rest of the 11,300 or so criminals.
Under the crime commission's plan, localities that build jail space with at least 150 additional beds would be reimbursed by the state up to 50 percent of related construction costs. The locality would also keep the full per-diem payment the federal government pays to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation. Currently, local sheriffs receive about 25 percent of reimbursement and the state pockets the rest.
For the agreement to work, Delegate David B. Albo, Fairfax County Republican and chairman of the crime commission, saidICE authorities must give local law-enforcement officials a list of which offenses would guarantee per diem payment for the illegal aliens be housed.
"We need the money for us to build the beds, and if they don't pick them up they can keep on paying," Mr. Albo said.
It is not clear whether federal immigration officials would go along with the plan.
Mr. Albo, Mr. Stolle and Mr. Towey hope to meet with ICE officials before the legislative session begins.
"To put the recommendation in a nutshell, we can only be as effective as ICE lets us be," Mr. Stolle said. "The recommendations from the crime commission try to shape an understanding with ICE whereby Virginia can be very helpful in fighting the illegal immigration problem."
Asked whether he was optimistic that can happen, Mr. Stole said, "No, I'm not confident."
"If they can fund it, we will build it and create an opportunity to try and take those people off the street that need to be taken off the street," he said. "Will they do it? It is strictly dependent upon congressional funding."
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