Thread: Local PD, prosecutors don't worry whether suspects are IAs

Local police, prosecutors don't worry whether suspects are illegal immigrants
BY STEVEN MAYER, Californian staff writer
e-mail: smayer@bakersfield.com | Saturday, May 24 2008 6:19 PM

Last Updated: Friday, May 23 2008 6:19 PM

When convicted murderer Juan Dedios Burboa was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the residents of California were sentenced, too, in a way.
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Nationwide, ICE charged more than 164,000 convicted criminals with immigration violations last year.

Of those, approximately 95,000 immigrants with criminal histories were deported.

But that’s only a fraction of the total. The agency estimates that 300,000 to 450,000 convicted criminal aliens who are deportable are detained each year at federal, state and local prisons and jails.

ICE doesn’t break out statistics specific to Kern County, but in fiscal year 2007, the agency took action against more than 18,000 criminal aliens in Northern California, including Kern County.

This fiscal year, those numbers are on track to significantly surpass last year’s, said ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice.

Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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The 29-year-old is a Mexican national, yet the entirety of his prison sentence — some 40 years if he lives to age 70 — will be served out in California prisons at the expense of California taxpayers.

Burboa was convicted in Kern County Superior Court for plotting to kidnap and kill a trio of Mexican drug runners and steal their shipment of crystal methamphetamine.

One of the drug runners was shot to death.

Even as the Golden State reels under a massive budget crisis fueled in part by a burgeoning prison population, there are tens of thousands of criminal aliens serving time on California’s dime.

Exactly how many are there? No one knows for sure.

Gordon Hinkle, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the department does not know how many illegal immigrants are housed in the state’s prisons. They don’t ask inmates whether they are undocumented.

They do ask new prisoners what country they were born in, Hinkle said, but they don’t concern themselves specifically with the immigration status of convicts.

The situation is similar at the local level.

“We have no idea how many of our inmates are undocumented,â€

Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels said his prosecutors do not take into consideration whether a defendant is a legal or an illegal immigrant.

No suspect can 'technically' have a fair trial and no court of law can dispense true justice without knowing the citizenship/immigration status of the accused.

Is not criminal history a factor in sentencing?

Originally Posted by MyAmerica

Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels said his prosecutors do not take into consideration whether a defendant is a legal or an illegal immigrant.

No suspect can 'technically' have a fair trial and no court of law can dispense true justice without knowing the citizenship/immigration status of the accused.

Is not criminal history a factor in sentencing?

Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels
Wanna email the idiot?

Administration: County of Kern
District Attorney’s Office
1215 Truxtun Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
Get Map
Phone: (661) 868-2340
Fax: (661) 868-2700
E-mail: DA@co.kern.ca.us
Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.

Here's my email"

I have great concern as to what California is turning this nation into. Your office is allowing illegal people to enjoy the United States of America as IF they are Americans? How does this make sense to you? Isn't America a country of laws? Aren't YOU a lawyer???????
Excuse me for being a patriot and wanting only LEGAL immigrants here, to pledge our flag, follow our laws, learn our history and learn the language of America. . . ENGLISH. Lastly, to be PROUD to be Americans!!! Illegal's have none of these except the ones that do have the inclination to learn English.

I would love a return email answering my questions.
You must leave out the words bigot, racist and xenophobe, as I'm Not one and only people that have no real answer use them.
Can you still state your case to me?

A Worried American

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California is believed to be home to at least one-third of all undocumented/illegal workers in the United States. Yet most high-profile raids have been in the South, the East and the Midwest.
71000 Americans killed by illegal's since 9-11 . . . .

Originally Posted by WorriedAmerican

Originally Posted by MyAmerica

Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels said his prosecutors do not take into consideration whether a defendant is a legal or an illegal immigrant.

No suspect can 'technically' have a fair trial and no court of law can dispense true justice without knowing the citizenship/immigration status of the accused.

Is not criminal history a factor in sentencing?

Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels
Wanna email the idiot?

Administration: County of Kern
District Attorney’s Office
1215 Truxtun Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
Get Map
Phone: (661) 868-2340
Fax: (661) 868-2700
E-mail: DA@co.kern.ca.us
Hours: Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.

Thank you WorriedAmerican