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    MD - Sheriff to testify today at Homeland Security hearing

    Sheriff to testify today at Homeland Security hearing
    Originally published March 04, 2009


    By Nicholas C. Stern
    News-Post Staff


    Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins will testify today along with several state and federal officials at a hearing on immigration enforcement called by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Homeland Security.
    The hearing will focus on an agreement between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local police agencies, known as 287(g), to enforce federal immigration laws.

    Jenkins said he was notified by the homeland security committee last week. He confirmed Friday that he would appear.

    Jenkins said he plans to lay out a broad view of the program as it has been applied in Frederick County and how it is tied to crime issues.

    "ICE views this agency as one of its model programs in 287(g)," he said. "I want to make my point of how successful the program is, and I'm very honored to have the opportunity to do that."

    In February 2008, 16 corrections officers and 10 deputies with the Frederick County Sheriff's Office completed a monthlong training course to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest and deport illegal immigrants who commit crimes.

    The 287(g) program was the first of its kind in the state, and corrections officers began their 287(g) duties in the Frederick County Adult Detention Center on April 11, 2008.

    Since then, the sheriff's office has arrested 337 people identified as in the country illegally. Of those, 309 are undergoing removal proceedings, Jenkins said.

    Jenkins has repeatedly said the sheriff's office does not engage in racial or ethnic profiling, and that only those who break the law should fear being arrested and detained under the program.

    Yet many in the local immigrant community are worried and uncertain in light of stepped-up enforcement, according to some advocates.

    "We're glad that the committee is exercising some oversight of the program, which suffers from a number of significant problems that more attention could help remedy," wrote Justin Cox, a lawyer for CASA de Maryland, the state's largest immigrant advocacy group, in an e-mail.

    Among problems Cox alleged was the sheriff's office financial incentive to arrest as many illegal immigrants as possible, the expense incurred by the federal government to implement the program and the lack of appropriate guidance and supervision ICE is required to give.


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    Yet many in the local immigrant community are worried and uncertain in light of stepped-up enforcement, according to some advocates.

    Among problems Cox alleged was the sheriff's office financial incentive to arrest as many illegal immigrants as possible, the expense incurred by the federal government to implement the program and the lack of appropriate guidance and supervision ICE is required to give.
    Perfect selling points as far as I'm concerned! Who cares what Casa de Maryland thinks? They sure don't care about the laws, why should we care what they think ?

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    Yet many in the local immigrant community are worried and uncertain in light of stepped-up enforcement, according to some advocates.
    So worry and don't sleep at night, don't go to the job you shouldn't have in the first place. Recommendation: go home!
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    Look at this blogger's twist on the meeting today....


    Is House committee review of 287 (g) program the first sign of immigration reform?

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    One of the most controversial components of local immigration enforcement is the 287 (g) program. It is a program that partners local law enforcement with ICE. Federal officials train selected police personnel to enforce federal immigration law.

    According to a page on the ICE website that hasn't been updated since August 18, 2008, more than 840 officers have been trained and certified through the 287 (g) program. It is the main weapon of the infamous Maricopa County Sheriff in his daily hunts for undocumented immigrants.

    While on the surface this program looks like it's a boon for the nation's security, it has failed local taxpayers because law enforcement authorized to implement 287 (g) spend less time responding to common crimes committed against their own citizens.

    Well, tomorrow 287 (g) will be given the review that is long overdue by the House Committee on Homeland Security. For the first time since the program has been implemented, officials will look to see what are the costs versus the benefits of the program.

    Such a move signals some hope that immigration reform is underway, if only in baby steps.

    Evaluating the 287 (g) program may be an easier task than congressional representatives think. There is tangible evidence that the costs of the 287 (g) program has taken a toll on city coffers and public safety.

    One of the first objective sources of the disparity over the real benefits of the 287 (g) was found in an Arizona newspaper series that chronicled Sheriff Arpaio's actions. In Part IV of the series Reasonable Doubt, East Valley Tribune reporters found:

    Response times, arrest rates, investigations and other routine police work throughout Maricopa County have suffered over the past two years as Sheriff Joe Arpaio turned his already short-handed and cash-strapped department into an immigration enforcement agency, a Tribune investigation found.

    Response times on life-threatening emergencies have slowed across the county, with residents on average waiting 10 minutes or more in most patrol districts. The County Board of Supervisors has set five minutes as the expected standard.

    Detectives' arrest rate on criminal investigations plunged, from 10 percent in 2005 to 3.5 percent last year.

    These are common complaints of those cities where local law enforcement opted into the 287 (g) program.

    The Immigration Policy Center released a report today entitled Local Enforcement of Immigration Laws Through the 287(g)Program: Time, Money, and Resources Don't Add Up to Community Safety where a detailed analysis of the true impact of the 287 (g) program on local communities is weighed against what the original intent of the program.

    Among their findings are:

    Prince William County, VA had to raise property taxes and take from its “rainy dayâ€
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    Didn't take these fools long to get hearings in congress did

    The craftiness of these scoundrels never ceases to amaze me.
    We can't deport them all ? Just think of the fun we could have trying!

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