Thread: Illegal immigrants released from jail, due to lack of space

Illegal immigrants released from jail, due to lack of space

Firday, Octobor 13, 2006


A dozen illegal immigrants busted on Interstate 95 in Florence County Thursday night have been released. That's because Charleston County jail officials say they had nowhere to put them.
Thursday night, deputies stopped a pick up truck where I-95 and I-20 connect in Florence County for a minor traffic violation. Inside, deputies say they arrested 13 illegal immigrants in that truck.

Police say the driver had cocaine and he's still in jail in Florence County. The 12 others were taken to the Charleston County jail by agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The Public Information Officer for the Charleston County Detention Center, Captain John Clark, said that they had no choice but to let the men go because they already had 115 other people to book and didn't have the time to adequately take care of the immigrants.

Clark says he does not know what happened to the illegal immigrants once they left his detention center. Officials with ICE would not comment because this is an on-going investigation. Wednesday night, Florence County deputies arrested nine illegal immigrants, so that's a total of 22 in just two days.

http://www.wpde.com/news/viewarticle.asp?view=2764

What a crock

The sheriff should have put them INSIDE the fence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

I've heard President Bush and Secretary Chertoff say, "catch & release" is a thing of the past, but yet I keep hearing about illegal immigrants being released back into society.

Why didn't they ship them back to their own countries?

Originally Posted by MW

I've heard President Bush and Secretary Chertoff say, "catch & release" is a thing of the past, but yet I keep hearing about illegal immigrants being released back into society.

It's called DoubleSpeak.