Thread: Sheriffs Back Three Jails for Illegal Immigrants

Sheriffs Back Three Jails for Illegal Immigrants

MYRTLE BEACH (AP) -- South Carolina sheriffs back a plan to build three regional prisons in the state to hold illegal immigrants as they await deportation.

Several sheriffs tell The Myrtle Beach Sun News that the plan would remove the inmates from overcrowded county jails, where they take up valuable space as they await officials to transfer them to the closest federal immigration court in Atlanta.

The current plan calls for the three prisons to hold up to 400 inmates each. State prison officials will run the facilities, which will be paid for through a program with the federal Department of Homeland Security.

It hasn't been determined who will pay to build the prisons, and officials stress the plan is a work in progress.

Advocates for the poor worry concentrating illegal immigrants in a few jails may lead to substandard care in those facilities.

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=61154

Mexico should pay for the jails, it's their people! American tax dollars paid for construction of a border Fence in Mexico to keep out central america!!

Great idea...build them!!!