Thread: Plan Would Shorten Jail Time For Some Illegal Immigrants

Plan Would Shorten Jail Time For Some Illegal Immigrants

TUCSON, Ariz. - The Pima County Attorney’s Office is working on a plan to get illegal immigrants accused of misdemeanor crimes out of jail and back to their home countries faster.

The effort is to save the hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money that it takes to keep inmates jailed as they await court appearances.

On any given day, about 10 percent of prisoners in the county jail are in the country illegally.

It takes about 10 days to resolve most misdemeanor cases, either through dismissals or plea agreements.

But county officials are considering offering misdemeanor suspects plea agreements within a day or two of their arrests when they’re arraigned.

In most cases, it would be the same deal suspects would get anyway, only about eight or nine days sooner. They’d be sentenced to time they’ve already served in jail, or probation, and transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Florence or Eloy.

Officials estimate that could save the county 300-thousand-dollars a year
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And what's going to keep them from coming right back here to commit more crimes?

Originally Posted by napanic

And what's going to keep them from coming right back here to commit more crimes?

The fence it it ever gets built? The virtual fence it if ever works? All the extra border patrol agents we'll have back on the border if the Iraq War ever ends? The funding for the fence and additional border patrol agents if it ever gets appropriated and distributed?