Thread: IL: Deportation bill makes it out of House committee

Deportation bill makes it out of House committee

By ANDY BROWNFIELD

THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER

Posted May 18, 2011 @ 04:41 PM



Nonviolent convicts in the United States illegally could face shorter sentences before deportation under a bill passed out of a House committee on Wednesday.

Currently, after an illegal immigrant serves a prison term for criminal activity, they are handed over to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.

House Bill 306 would allow nonviolent offenders to be released early for deportation back to their home countries.
The legislation is an initiative of ICE, sponsor Rep. Randy Ramey, R-Carol Stream, said. The agency believes there are around 1,000 individuals who would qualify for the program, he said.

The estimated cost savings to the state would be around $25,000 per prisoner, Ramey said.

The proposal passed unanimously out of committee and will now go to the full House.

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Deport, Deport, Deport. The sooner the better, so yes, I think this is a good law in Illinois which should extend beyond prisons to schools and hospitals.

In my opinion this is a catch 22 situation. Yes, it gets them out of our jails and off the taxpayer's back... but as we all know they will turn around and head right back. With the borders as they are, they will be back within a week!

If they deport them now, they can easily walk right back in past Napolitano and Obama's unsecured border.

W

Since when has deportation become a punishment? Illegals aren't supposed to be here in the first place. Deportation should be considered a natural act, not a punishment. If you do the crime, you should do the time (IMO). I'm not for reducing the penalties handed out by the courts - I do not consider that justice. In my view, justice is means you first pay for your crime and then get deported.

I may be willing to compromise on the issue if the bill also states that the illegal is banned from the country permanently and that returning will automatically subject the individual to a minimum of 10 years in federal prison, no questions asked, and no appeal.

Originally Posted by nomas

In my opinion this is a catch 22 situation. Yes, it gets them out of our jails and off the taxpayer's back... but as we all know they will turn around and head right back. With the borders as they are, they will be back within a week!

I'm sure that's true, so that's why we need our border states to pass AZ style immigration laws and start enforcing US immigration law in their state including securing the border. If AZ and TX keep them out or catch them before they get through their states, these people will never make it to their Job Op in Illinois or anywhere else. And MO (Missouri) has a great law too, different than AZ's in some ways, but still a good law, along with Georgia now and OK is working on theirs, and Louisiana is getting started on this as well, and South Carolina will soon have a good law like Arizona's, too, so the states even just a few key states can have a major impact on enforcement and through it securing our borders.

And even if all Illinois does is deport them, then that's the flushing action we need. The other states can shut off the valve. And people will know what states help save our country, and which ones tried to destroy it.

And the Elephant never forgets.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

If they deport them now, they can easily walk right back in past Napolitano and Obama's unsecured border.

W

Yes, but isn't that the case with all deportations? Not until the States start enforcing US immigration law and these slime balls are facing county, city and state law enforcement officers in the border states will that change. That's why it's so important to support AZ style immigration laws and get them passed in as many states as possible. And also, LEO's need to understand that under federal law they already have the the right to arrest illegal aliens and those harboring and abetting them so they really don't even have to wait for state laws. Americans have to secure our borders individually as well as through state and local law enforcement agencies including citizen posses.

We know the feds are nothing but fakes at this job, and that's not an offense on Border Patrol or even ICE, we know Border Patrol is doing all it can with their resources but they are outnumbered with only 20,000 agents when we need 40,000 just to man the southern border alone 24/7/365, plus another 40,000 to process the ones they catch, so we the people and the states have to do it. The states have 800,000 trained, sworn, funded and equipped law enforcement officers that chase, hunt, investigate, arrest, detain and help prosecute every level of criminal our crimes laws cover, so doing the same thing to catch, arrest, detain, prosecute and deport illegal aliens would be a cakewalk for them, not unlike traffic court for most of the cases.

Originally Posted by nomas

In my opinion this is a catch 22 situation. Yes, it gets them out of our jails and off the taxpayer's back... but as we all know they will turn around and head right back. With the borders as they are, they will be back within a week!

Hopefully, it'll cost them more money each time they try to sneak back in . They'll still have to pay back all $$$ from previous incursions and coyotes don't care about the problems, they just want their $$$.

We need to make sure they cannot get jobs here and make it as miserable as possible so they will have to give up and stay put in their countries.