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    Not an Easy Task to Have Illegal Deported

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    Not an easy task to have illegal deported
    By Jennifer Harr, Herald-Standard
    07/10/2005

    In February, Daniel Moreno Granados was left on the street by a Fairchance area man who had previously taken him in. State police responded and called agents to pick Granados up because he was in the country illegally.

    But agents at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office in Pittsburgh said they would not come and get Granados, according to state police. He was only one man and had no outstanding warrants for his arrest.

    Mike Gilhooly, spokesmen for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of USCIS, said that had police contacted the Law Enforcement Support Center about Granados, he would have been detained and probably deported.

    The LESC is the preferred contact point when police pick up a suspected illegal alien, Gilhooly said. The LESC is responsible for helping police around the country determine who it is they have in custody. A police officer electronically transmits data to the LESC, where technicians access 95 million immigration records to determine who is in custody, Gilhooly said.

    LESC officials conduct their searches through eight separate databases that go through the Department of Homeland Security. Once a report is compiled, it is sent back to the police officer that requested information.

    With the request for a check, ICE officials also can ask police to detain the person until a local ICE agent comes to take him into custody, Gilhooly said. That federal detention is for a maximum of two business days.

    "Had we been involved or been queried about this individual, we would have placed a detainer on him and contacted the local office," Gilhooly said about Granados.

    The LESC gets approximately 670,000 queries per year, Gilhooly said. In the past 12 months, ICE has placed an average of 1,067 detainers per month based on those inquiries. In fiscal 2004, 15,500 detainers were placed, Gilhooly said.

    "Clearly, we have a major impact nationally," he said.

    Since Granados is admittedly in the United States illegally, Gilhooly said his wisest option might be to return to Mexico.

    "If the individual is in the U.S. illegally, then he would be responsible for coming here illegally and working illegally and he can go home," Gilhooly said. "That would be the smartest option on his part, because if we do come in contact with him, we can place him in removal or deportation proceedings, and if we do, he will have a bar against returning."

    Chris Bentley, a press official with the USCIS, said it is difficult to comment on the circumstances in which immigration officials would advise local police to let an illegal alien go, noting that the office "has to prioritize how they use their resources.

    "It's a case-by-case situation where they make a determination of how much manpower they have to respond," Bentley said.

    Gilhooly also said ICE prioritizes its cases, putting national security at the forefront.

    "Our national priorities are anything to do with national security, with public safety and with removing individuals from the country who are felons, prior deportation cases ... and individuals who are sexual predators," Gilhooly said.

    Earlier this year, ICE initiated Operation Community Shield, an anti-gang program that targets violent street gangs.

    USCIS is the former Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS). Functions of INS were transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in 2002, and in 2003, INS was abolished and its functions were incorporated into the USCIS, according to the agency's Web site.
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    It would be easier if more people would cooperate.
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