Thread: ILLEGAL ALIEN SERIOUS CRIME ESCALATING

Thursday, 28 February 2008
ILLEGAL ALIEN SERIOUS CRIME ESCALATING
FOUR HOMICIDES IN FOUR DAYS

Phoenix, AZ -Undocumented aliens, mostly from Mexico and Central America, now total 1953 inmates in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s jail system.

That number represents 21 percent of the overall inmate population of men and women housed in the nation’s third largest jail system.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that is just small part of the story about those incarcerated in his jails. He says that recent figures show that serious crime (class four felonies and above) are committed substantially by illegal aliens.

During two recent surveys, between 27 and 53 percent of all suspects booked into the jail on serious felonies had immigration holds placed on them. The vast majority of those with holds were in the United States illegally.

According to the Sheriff’s figures, illegal alien inmate population numbers have grown steadily in Arizona and other border states over the last several years. In March 2005, the illegal alien population in Arpaio’s jails totaled approximately 700.

The increase in inmate population comes as 160 federal immigration trained Sheriff’s officers have begun investigating the immigration status.
http://www.borderfirereport.net/latest/ ... ating.html

Huh? I thought that studies show the illegals commit less crimes than U.S. citizens.

NC study: 1 in 5 jail inmates foreign born

02/19/2008 04:42 PM
By: Tim Boyum

RALEIGH -- A new study shows one in five inmates in North Carolina metropolitan jails was not born in this country.

The Sheriffs's Association believes a large number of those inmates are here illegally as well. At the same time, some counties are starting a new program that can lead to quicker deportation.

In the past, local law enforcement was given no authority to enforce immigration laws but that is changing. Mecklenburg, Alamance, Gaston, and Cabarrus counties are taking part in a program called 287g. It gives specially trained deputies the authority to process illegal immigrants who commit crimes.

"I think there's a lot of people including me who don't want police inquiring about the immigration status of everyone they come into contact with but when someone's accused of a serious crime you expect things to be a little different," U.S. Rep. Brad Miller (D-13th) said.

In the past, local law enforcement was given no authority to enforce immigration laws but that is changing.

State lawmakers also heard about efforts to help jails get information on incoming inmates who might be illegal. Right now jails can access FBI or SBI files with a phone call but the same is not true for U.S. immigration enforcement (ICE) files.

"So there could be folks wanted for very serious offenses in the ice database that come into the Wake County jail, the Hertford County jail, or Cherokee County jail and get processed and it comes back no record in file because the SBI file can't jump across and talk to the ICE database," NC Sheriff's Association Eddie Caldwell said.

While law enforcement generally applauds these new immigration programs, not all lawmakers are on board.

"You know this is a hot topic today in politics and everyone is talking about it but people are not really looking at really complex issues in the detail they should," added Sen. Ellie Kinnaird (D-Orange).

Sen. Kinnaird believe the state legislature and counties should not be involved in immigration issues and blames the federal government.

"I think when they failed to pass a fair immigration law this was their fall back, let's send it down to the states," Sen. Kinnaird said.

Three North Carolina counties, Wake, Henderson, and Cumberland, are scheduled to add the 287g program in the coming months. Fifteen others have pending applications.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-104653-boyum.html

Three North Carolina counties, Wake, Henderson, and Cumberland, are scheduled to add the 287g program in the coming months. Fifteen others have pending applications.

This program should be mandatory nationwide!

the real DREAM ACT.....a federal law that would mandate that ALL local, state, county law enforcement agencies insititute 287(g).....

that is something that could happen if we had the right Attorney General in office. Of course, Alberto Gonzalez was definitely not interested in enforcing any laws against illegal aliens ....but who is in his place....we haven't heard anything from the new Attorney General...what's up with that?

Wouldn't it be great if we had Kris Kobach as U.S. Attorney General?

http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/

Michael Mukasey was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941 and graduated from Columbia College and Yale Law School, where he was on the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to becoming Attorney General, he had a lengthy career as an attorney, including service as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1972 to 1976 in New York. From 1975 to 1976 he also served as chief of his district's Official Corruption Unit. From 1976 to 1987 he was an associate, and then member, of the firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler.

Mukasey was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and served until 2006, the last six years as chief judge. During that time, Judge Mukasey presided over hundreds of cases, including the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 co-defendants charged with conspiring to blow up numerous sites in New York. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was widely praised for the speed with which the federal courthouse, located just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, returned to normal operation.

Upon his retirement from the bench, Mukasey returned to Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, in the firm's litigation group.

Judge Mukasey has received numerous awards over the years, including the Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence from the Federal Bar Council, the William Tendy Award from the Fiske Association, awards from the Seymour Association, the Respect for Law Alliance, and the Ari Halberstam Award from the Jewish Children's Museum. He also received an honorary degree from the Brooklyn Law School.

Mukasey's professional and civic activities have included service as a director of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and as a director of the Jewish Children's Museum. He has also been a lecturer in law at the Columbia Law School. He was a member of the Automation and Technology Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States; was chairman of the Committee on Public Access to Information and Proceedings of the New York State Bar Association; was a member of the Federal Courts Committee and the Communications Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and was a member of the American Bar Association.

Judge Mukasey was nominated to be Attorney General by President George W. Bush on September 17, 2007, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 8. He entered duty on November 9.

He and his wife, Susan, have two grown children, Marc and Jessica, and two grandsons.

Thanks for the info.....but we still have silence from AG Mukaskey on the issue of illegal immigration,homeland security etc.