Thread: North Georgia gets new immigration detention site

Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
North Georgia gets new immigration detention site

By: Perla Trevizo


PDF: Detention Centers report

A new detention center in North Georgia will help ensure that illegal immigrants are detained and deported instead of released because of lack of bed space, a local official said.

The problem is not that local jails must detain illegal immigrants longer, said Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Wes Lynch.

“The problem is that, when they are sent to the federal-run facilities, if there is not enough housing — after all this work has been done to detain them — they are usually released on bond and many times they don’t show up again,â€

I wonder if D.A. King is doing a "Happy Dance".