Thread: Specter: Deportation Difficult

This is from the "Times-Leader" in Wilkes-Barre, PA

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Senator recognizes pressure on state, county prisons

February 11
Specter: Deportation difficult
EDWARD LEWIS elewis@timesleader.com


WILKES-BARRE – A disruptive inmate in the restrictive housing unit at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility didn’t deter U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter from visiting the facility on Monday.




U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter tours the restricted housing unit at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility on Monday morning with officials from Luzerne County. Specter talked about issues associated with the identification and deportation of criminal aliens.

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Specter, R-Philadelphia, and federal officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ignored the inmate who was shouting words in Spanish through a sealed cell door.

The senator spent about an hour with Luzerne County commissioners Maryanne Petrilla, Greg Skrepenak and Stephen Urban, Warden Gene Fischi, Deputy Warden Sam Hyder and Prison Board President Wister Yuhas to discuss problems with deporting convicted illegal immigrants.

Pennsylvania prisons incarcerate an estimated 2,132 criminal aliens, 1,000 of whom may be undocumented aliens, Specter’s office said in a news release. There are 20 undocumented immigrants at the county facility.

LCCF Capt. Mark Rockovich said an estimated 180 illegal immigrants were jailed at the county facility in 2007, adding to the overcrowding problem.

“We may not have an overcrowding problem if we didn’t have illegal aliens,â€

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Major hurdles law enforcement agencies face include an inability to identify undocumented immigrants, lack of resources to deport them and an inadequate process to compel their native countries to accept them, Specter said.

“Immigration (and Customs Enforcement) takes them but they can only hold them for 180 days,â€

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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Specter says ex-cons slip deportation
HE’S TOURING STATE AND COUNTY PRISONS TO LOBBY FOR REFORMS
By MICHAEL P. RELLAHAN, Staff Writer
POCOPSON — For U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the way illegal immigrants convicted of crimes are treated after their sentences end is troublesome.

In a meeting Monday with Chester County Prison Board members, Specter painted a picture of undocumented immigrants who are released from prison without being deported then go back to the criminal life that sent them to prison in the first place.

“We face a major problem because the country of origin will not take them back for

repatriation,â€