Five Deputies to Join Ranks of Cross-Designated Limited Authority ICE Agents
May 9, 2008 11:44 by John
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Five Deputies graduated on Friday, May 9 after completing a four week long intensive training program on immigration law and Immigration and Customs Enforcement procedures for removal of undocumented individuals booked our jails. Once they return they will receive additional training from both the deputies that are already ICE trained and approximately one week with the Federal ICE agents over at the Federal building in Santa Ana.

The deputies will be cross-designed as ICE agents and will serve as such in our jails. They were trained at the Mecklenberg County Sheriff’s Department in North Carolina.

The five Deputies are Jesus Hernandez, Naomi Jimenez, Cynthia Mata, Hector Martinez and Art Tiscareno.

On December 21, 2006, 12 deputies and 2 sergeants successfully completed the four week training course for the 287(g) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cross-designation program. The newly trained deputies will also be cross designed as limited authority ICE agents.

Due to recent transfers, four of the deputies will remain at the IRC and 1 will go to Theo Lacy after they complete their on the job training here.

Acting Sheriff Jack Anderson attended the graduation and delivered these remarks.


Good Afternoon. I want to thank you for inviting me to be here today. I’m Assistant Sheriff Jack Anderson, currently acting as the Sheriff of Orange County, California.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is currently in its 2nd year of screening for undocumented foreign nationals during the booking process in our jails.

We pursued our partnership with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement because it was essential that we reduce crime, reduce jail overcrowding and reduce cases in our court system.

For us, the Cross-Designation program is not about immigration, it’s about law enforcement.

Government Accountability Office 2005 Report on Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States.

• 55,322: Illegal aliens in prison or jails.

• 459,614: Total arrests for this group (average 8 arrests per illegal alien).

• 12% of arrests were for violent offenses such as Murder, Robbery, Assault, and Sex Offenses.

• 58% of all arrests occurred in California.

On January 19, 2007, 2 Sergeants and 12 Deputies began screening in the Orange County Jails.

In the first year, we booked 70,870 individuals into our jails. We screened 100% of those booked and:

• We interviewed 6,469
• We detained 4,683
• W/Aggravated felonies 327
• With Felonies 2,968
• With misdemeanors 1,715
• Members of gangs 300

From January 21, 2008 to present we’ve booked 16,316. Again, we’ve screened 100%.

We’ve conducted secondary interviews with 1,238 individuals, detaining 1,081—152 of which were booked with aggravated felonies.

We’ve been able to keep these dangerous individuals from returning to our streets – and our residents are safer for it.

The Cross-Designation program has been enormously successful in Orange County and I am proud to be here to celebrate our most recent graduates and honor all of you for your dedication and commitment to keeping the communities you serve safe.

This program has served our residents and businesses well and I look forward to continuing to work with ICE as we move forward in this endeavor.

Congratulations to you all and God Bless


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