Thread: TX - Spike in ICE detainees at Randall County Jail

Monday, February 27th 2017, 7:51 pm PST
Monday, February 27th 2017, 8:23 pm PST
By Shannon Smith

RANDALL COUNTY, TX (KFDA) -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has sent more detainees to the Randall County Jail this month than they have over the previous six months.

In December, the jail housed 26 ICE detainees.

In January it was 16.

As of Monday, they've housed 51 in February.

"It didn't really surprise me," said Captain Paul Horn, Randall County Jail Administrator. "It is a little bit more than what we generally get. But it kind of comports with what we're seeing in the news so it very well could be part of that."

By "that" he means recent memos President Trump has released regarding stricter immigration patrolling.

"They're asking for more immigration and customs and border enforcement to take place," said local immigration attorney Nicholas Nevarez. "And they're asking for it to be after individuals who are charged with criminal offenses or have been previously deported."

Many of these detainees are coming from counties around Amarillo, where local law enforcement has been getting stricter.
But they're not just getting arrested for violent crimes.

Nevarez said more immigrants are now being booked for things that used to just be a ticketable offense - like driving without a license.

Then when they're booked and authorities find these people don't have social security numbers, that's when ICE steps in.

The higher number of detainees coming to the Randall County Jail is impacting our economy in a couple ways.

"There are several jobs that Americans will just never work at, maybe it's in the agriculture field or maybe it's in the restaurants," said Nevarez. "So if there's an immigrant that's working that job and they're no longer allowed to be in the United States, the restaurant owner now has to raise their costs to pay a higher salary to find an American [to do the job]."

Plus, the more people detained, the more tax dollars spent.

The jail has not been told they'll be getting a higher number of ICE detainees soon, but Nevarez expects the spikes to continue for a little while since the executive orders are so new.

http://www.newschannel10.com/story/3...ll-county-jail

"There are several jobs that Americans will just never work at, maybe it's in the agriculture field or maybe it's in the restaurants," said Nevarez. "So if there's an immigrant that's working that job and they're no longer allowed to be in the United States, the restaurant owner now has to raise their costs to pay a higher salary to find an American [to do the job]."

EXACTLY!!! That's where we want to go!! We want illegal aliens to go home so businesses pay higher wages to hire Americans so Americans can go back to work!! Americans don't start and underwrite law schools to teach immigration lawyers how to justify breaking our immigration laws to then breach US labor laws that deflate wages in the United States and grow both unemployment and poverty.

You're very screwed up, Nevarez.

We just went to a restaurant today where they added a 10% "Service Charge" on the bill.

That charge is in lieu of a tip (that would have gone 100% to the Server).

We asked them to explain this to us. The Service Charge is divided among the Hostess, the Chef, the Bus Boy, the Server, the Cooks, they each get a percentage.

Then if you want to tip extra to your Server...you may do so and they keep it. Which we did tip extra.

This "Service Charge" would help to pay a higher salary to their cooks, hostesses, servers, etc. And helps them retain their staff.

I think this is fair...and a solution to give all restaurants workers a bump in pay.

ADOPT THIS POLICY AND DEPORT THE ILLEGAL ALIENS!