Thread: PA - Bucks County Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration

Bucks County has teamed up with the Feds to crack down on illegal aliens. But officials say investigators won't have to go far to catch the culprits. WFMZ's Jackie Shutack explains. Reporter: Officials with Bucks County Corrections demonstrate just how easy it is to scan and upload a digital fingerprint into a system that instantly sends information to the feds. When an inmate is booked into the facility.
Harris Gubernick/Dir, Bucks Co Corrections: "We get information back within a very short period of time with a degree of accuracy to clearly identify who we have in custody."
Reporter: If that inmate is an illegal alien, federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, can work to deport the person after he or she is done serving time.
Thomas Decker/ICE: "Removing criminal aliens from not only the communities, but the country."
Reporter: The technology is 5 years old, but in December, Bucks County became one of the first counties in the country to start using it. Over the next three and a half years, thousands of facilities nationwide will follow Bucks County and install the program. The fingerprints are entered into a federal database that links to the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security. DHS alone has over 90-million fingerprints.
Thomas Decker/ICE: "Builds cooperative relationships between law enforcement agencies."
Reporter: Linking the 1300 inmates at the Bucks County with law enforcement across the nation. And giving the feds the high tech help they need to make sure illegal immigrants don't slip through any cracks in the system. In Doylestown, Bucks County, Jackie Shutack, 69 News.

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http://wfmz.com/view/?id=660633

The system seems to be working ok for them. And maybe it will not be long till a lot of others across the country have this system in place.

I did not have any prblem with the video

As a resident of Bucks County, PA...this is a very, welcome initiative. Immigration reform activists have been meeting quietly with officials from the County, the D.A's office and local elected officials from several municipalities in the County to urge implementation of 287(g) or other cooperative agreement with ICE. We were thrilled to learn that Bucks and neighboring Montgomery County, PA entered into the Secure Communities Initiative with ICE just a short month ago and with no opposition from open-border, anti-law-enforcement groups. Let's hope this starts catching on. Indeed there are many earmarks for law enforcement technology upgrades in the new Omnibus Appropriations bill and we should encourage recipient agencies to spend the funds on initiatives like this. Way to go Bucks County!

PA Activists and others.....if you want to call and thank the officials for this initiative that will make our community and nation safer ...here's the contact information.....I'm sure they would appreciate a friendly phone call of support.



The Bucks County Department of Corrections
1730 South Easton Road
Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901
Phone: 215-345-3700
Fax: 215-340-8485
email: bucksdoc@co.bucks.pa.us

Harris Gubernick
Director of Corrections

Correctional Facility
1730 South Easton Road
Doylestown, PA 18901
Terrance P. Moore
Warden, Correctional Facility
Phone: 215-345-3700
Fax: 215-345-3846

Men's/Women's Community Corrections Centers
1730 South Easton Road
Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901
Guy E. Waller
Superintendent, Community Corrections
Phone: 215-345-3906
Fax: 215-345-3940