Thread: CA: Legal statuses of prisoners targeted

Legal statuses targeted
Lawmaker says prison costs statewide would drop if more facilities adopt program to check legal statuses of inmates.
Chris Caesar

Assemblyman Van Tran wants state and federal authorities to team up to check the immigration status of prisoners.

Tran’s bill, which would require correctional officers to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federal law, would also save California money, he said.

Tran, a Vietnamese immigrant, argued that prison costs could be cut tremendously by deporting, instead of detaining, those here illegally. “This is definitely a law-and-order piece of legislation, but it’s also a fiscally prudent piece of legislation,â€

About time!!! California has more prisons than any state........I wonder why? The taxpayers are overburdened in every way here and this is one of them!

Gee you think?

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ya sounds great.........just deport them......................................and they come back over the OPEN border with another name..........................................just frikin great.......sure am glad I moved out of Mexifornia, but the union is in trouble wether it's mexifornia or Oklahoma

Feb 20, 2008

In An Effort To Alleviate Budget Crises, Assemblyman Tran Proposes Bill To Screen State Prisons For Illegal Immigrants

Tran measure would require The Department Of Corrections to verify the immigration status of any new prisoners that are taken into the California prison system

For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Dave Everett
(951) 233-7804

SACRAMENTO – This week, Assemblyman Van Tran was proud to introduce AB 2141 to help alleviate the current budget crises facing our state. AB 2141 would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations to verify the immigration status of any new prisoner under the custody of the department.

“As an immigrant myself, I am passionately for legal immigration and passionately against illegal immigration. California spends at least $750 million a year keeping illegal immigrants behind bars. The federal government is only reimbursing 6.5% of the cost. This must change,â€

Hope it passes. Good Job assemblyman Tran!

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Mexifornia needs all the help it can get.