Thread: Imprisoned illegal migrants to be deported

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Imprisoned illegal migrants to be deported
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Posted: 4/11/2007

More than 200 illegal immigrant inmates in Nevada's prison system will be turned over to federal immigration officials for deportation within two months.

Nevada's Parole Board, the state Pardons Board chaired by Gov. Jim Gibbons and the Department of Corrections are working on the project to identify inmates they believe can be released to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

"We're just trying to free up some prison beds," Parole Commission Chairwoman Dorla Salling said.

David Smith, management analyst for the Parole Board, said most of the inmates on the list are Mexican nationals, but none is serving time for violent or sex offenses.

"Most of them are first offenders, in for property or drug crimes," he said. "We think they're good candidates to be deported."

Smith said violent crime felons and sex offenders won't be in the group because "we don't think we need to be creating a danger in those other countries." He also said INS has agreed to take the inmates into federal custody for deportation.

The idea was suggested by Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty of Reno as one method of reducing overcrowding in Nevada's prisons.

Prison officials said deporting the inmates could save the state more than $4 million in a year.

Smith said the plan involves two groups of inmates. The first consists of 49 inmates already paroled by the board but still in prison because they haven't yet served their minimum sentences.

The Pardons Board meets April 25 to vote on commuting the sentences of those inmates, so that they can be immediately released to INS.

An additional 180 inmates aren't eligible yet for parole hearings. Smith said the Parole Board will meet May 2-4 to review their cases.

Prison bed space is one of the biggest issues facing the 2007 Legislature. The inmate population is nearly 1,000 more than what was projected and budgeted for two years ago.

As a result, the prison system is faced with $60 million in costs to install modular units in existing prisons as soon as possible.

In addition, prison officials say they need nearly $300 million in construction for the next two years to house more beds. Construction estimates for the next decade total $1.9 billion.

Yeah they will be deported and with our dearly concerned Elites in Washington. They will be back because, because our borders are open.

Perhaps we can deport some of our citizen criminals with them? Two birds with one stone....

Originally Posted by Dagmar

Perhaps we can deport some of our citizen criminals with them? Two birds with one stone....

Yeah, give 'em back what they gave us.

So basically we should pardon them for the crimes they've committed in the United States?????

Geez, is there no end to the amnesty our politicians are so eager to hand out?

Why are they so worried about sending back sex offenders and some of the other criminals? Sometimes I think that those countries sent them here just as Castro did with the Mariel Boat Lift from Cuba. Where approxiamtely 2,000 of them ended up being arrested in the United States for violent rapes and murder and have served 20 years in prison.
Most prisons in the U.S. are overcrowded and if we deported all illegals doing time, just think how much more room their would be and thereby safer for guards and other prison staff not to mention the savings for taxpayers.

swatchick wrote:

Most prisons in the U.S. are overcrowded and if we deported all illegals doing time, just think how much more room their would be and thereby safer for guards and other prison staff not to mention the savings for taxpayers.

What's to stop them from coming right back and taking up where they left off? I might agree with you if our border was secured, but unfortunately that is not the case.

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Smith said violent crime felons and sex offenders won't be in the group because "we don't think we need to be creating a danger in those other countries."

Whao! We sure wouldn't want to send these violent felons & sex offenders back to where they came from would we?

Well, really I do, but as MW said they'd be right back committing the same crimes or worse again.

Anybody remember a story here a few months ago about prisoners in Mexico being put on buses in the middle of the night and driven to the border?

I was reading an article reagrding the Haitians and Cubans the Coast Guard intercepted at sea and how these people ended up deported. There was a section of comments people left and some had a few good suggestions. On was insert microchips in the ones sent back so you know if they attempt to come back. I can't post the comments as some of them are combined with ones that are in poor taste and not a reflection of our way of doing things.