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    IL: County Sheriff (Waukegan) applies for 287g!!!!!!!

    For those new to alipac let me share that in July my town, Waukegan, voted to apply for 287g. It was an amazing night. William of alipac and Ted Hayes were already in town for an immigration conference -so they witnessed this event. The pro-immigrant side had over 3,000 protesters. Since then our county sheriff (whose jail is in Waukegan) has just announced he has already applied. What a smart move, based on the hoopla with the previous application. So tell your police this strategy -apply, then announce!

    I'll keep alipac informed as this story progresses.
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    County seeks deportation powers

    December 3, 2007
    NEWS-SUN STAFF REPORT
    With no fanfare, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office has applied for federal Immigration Act authority to allow corrections officers to begin deportation proceedings against illegal immigrants convicted of certain serious offenses.

    Sheriff Mark Curran and Wayne Hunter, the county’s director of homeland security, announced the move Monday morning. Hunter said he submitted the formal application to Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week at the direction of the sheriff.

    Curran said the decision to seek federal 287 (g) status for certain specially-trained corrections officers in the county jail was made by himself, Undersheriff Charles Fagan and Hunter with the approval of county administration.

    Curran indicated that protests in Waukegan earlier this year over Waukegan’s decision to seek 287 (g) status played a role in the decision not to announce the application before it was formally submitted.

    http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/news ... S1.article

    From July '07
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    fedup, EXCELLENT NEWS!!!! now can your shariff talk to mchenry county schariff kieth nygren? we really need to do something in mchenry county or instead of jewel we will be shopping at the local tienda.....


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    Lake Co. sheriff wants deportation powers
    By Tony Gordon | Daily Herald Staff
    Published: 12/3/2007 2:03 PM

    The Lake County sheriff's office has applied to certify some of its officers to do deportation paperwork processing under a federal program that ignited a storm of controversy this summer in Waukegan.

    Sheriff Mark Curran said Monday he wants the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to qualify six corrections officers to begin the paperwork for deporting illegal immigrants charged with committing serious crimes.

    When Waukegan police announced this year they would seek similar certification for officers, immigrant rights groups protested the action as setting the stage for mass roundups of all those who are in this country illegally.

    The Waukegan City Council eventually voted to move forward with the application, but only after hundreds of people demonstrated outside the council chambers.

    Curran and his director of homeland security, Wayne Hunter, said Monday they wanted to avoid similar protests by explaining how the process worked.

    And while Curran said he hoped people would understand his motives for the application, he said there would be no public debate on the move.

    "This is not a matter that is open for discussion," Curran said. "We believe it was the right to decision to make and we made it."

    Curran said the certification of officers under the federal 287 (g) program will allow them to be trained to begin the deportation process for people already under arrest for serious crimes.

    No new police powers or federal authority would be bestowed on the officers trained in the program, Curran said, nor would they process paperwork for anyone simply for being in the country illegally.

    "Pure and simple, this is an effort to get violent criminals, child molesters and drug dealers out of a country they have no right to be in," Curran said. "No one who is not charged with a serious offense will be affected."

    Curran said jail officials currently notify ICE of the arrest of anyone who is in the country illegally for even the most minor offenses, and have done so for years.

    Training corrections officers to do ICE paperwork for deportation proceedings will only speed a cumbersome process, said Hunter, who worked with federal officials for 11 years as a Waukegan police officer assigned to a narcotics task force.

    "The deportation process is very paperwork intensive, and our officers will simply be getting the ball rolling," he said. "It is all about a collaborative effort between us and the feds to make the streets safer."

    Hunter said Curran asked him to research the issue as soon as he was appointed to the security position in May.

    "We have looked at this from every conceivable angle and were very methodical about it," he said. "This is not something we wanted to knee-jerk into, and I do not believe we are."

    Hunter said the deportation process would only be begun for people charged with violent offenses, sex crimes and the most serious of drug offenses.

    The criminal court process would play out for everyone targeted under the plan and the sentences of those convicted would be served before any deportation took place.

    He said it could be a year or longer before ICE reviews the sheriff's office application and agrees to train the officers.

    http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=88838
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    This is great news! Hats off to all the ALIPAC Activists that have been working that area hard. I truly hope our efforts, earlier this year in Waukegan, helped in some way.

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    I am so happy for you "Fedup" to bad it has to take a year, but at least it was accomplished, it can hopefully only get better from here.
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    added to the homepage with a spate of more good news!

    http://www.alipac.us/article-2764-thread-1-0.html
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    Thanks folks. Even if it takes a year it is having an effect. Here is a bit from Chicago Public Radio. If you click on the link you can hear this local activist comments. I've been in conversations with him -when Waukegan applied for 287g this summer and we had a massive protest. He's ahhh an interesting ahhhh guy.

    The sheriff's jail is in Waukegan as well. So we have two agencies who will have 287g -double whammy. Note the effect Mr. Guzman says it will have;


    http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Conte ... ioID=16212

    Here's a link if you want to hear the brief interview and Guzman's quote.


    Lake County Sheriff’s Plan Riles Some Immigrants
    Produced by Chip Mitchell on Tuesday, December 04, 2007


    The police in north suburban Waukegan and Carpentersville have both applied for training to help initiate deportations. Now the Lake County sheriff’s office wants in. And some immigrant leaders are predicting dire consequences.

    For some time now, the sheriff’s department has provided the federal government with lists of detainees who seem to lack authorization to be in the country.

    Now the department has applied for six Lake County jailers to be certified to begin the deportation process. It says the officers will focus on sex offenders, violent criminals and serious drug offenders.

    TAPE: That’s a bunch of baloney.

    Waukegan labor leader José Guzmán says it’s wrong to flag immigrants for deportation before they’ve been convicted of a crime.

    TAPE: The police have to do their job. Arrest and send them to the judge and let the judge decide what to do with those people.

    Guzmán predicts many Lake County immigrants will move to Wisconsin or Cook County.

    The sheriff’s department says the training is at least a year off.

    I’m Chip Mitchell, Chicago Public Radio.
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    Fedupinwaukegan, Great news! All that effort expelled by everyone earlier this year was well worth it. When it starts making the news about arrests using 287g it should help here in Cook County as well, and by freeing up ICE agents to work Cook County even more.

    In the mean time, I hope they don’t come to Cook County. We have an enough already. Actually to tell you the truth, it seems that there are less of them around here too. (It’s just a gut feeling simply based on; I don’t see as many as I did before.)

    Driving home the other day I heard on the local news radio that the North Central division of ICE (Northern ILL, Southern WIS, Northern IND, and Western Iowa) reported that deportations are about tripled over last year. The numbers were something like; 2006 = 420 deportations, and year 2007 = 1,470. Most are what they called the “criminal typeâ€
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    Great news! Certainly makes the effort worth it to hear these success stories.

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    Fedup,

    We all celebrate with you. Folks like William and you make it happen. Every town and county should implement 287(g). Who could reasonably oppose deportation of criminal aliens?
    287(g) + e-verify + SSN no match = Attrition through enforcement

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