Posts Tagged ‘287(g)’

We Must Protect Ourselves

In 2005, it was determined that Celso Campo-Duartes was in the country illegally after he was arrested for running down Dacula resident Aubrey Sosebee as the 83-year-old man was taking the mail from his mailbox. Campo-Duartes also left the scene of the accident, a fairly common act by illegal aliens.  He had no insurance and a fraudulent tag on his truck.

Campo-Duartes, who was employed as a plumber, spent just over two years awaiting trial in jail, then was allowed to plead to lesser charges and was released immediately on “time served.” A condition of his release was that he “voluntarily” deport himself, but Campos-Duartes is back in jail today, having been arrested—for at least the third time since his incarceration—for driving without a license and disorderly conduct.

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Stuck Inside the Box: My Dissent to the Engage Gwinnett Report

The 94-page final report of the Engage Gwinnett committee is now online. It details the findings and recommendations of the citizen committee (of which I was a member) that examined Gwinnett County’s finances for over six months.

Despite our herculean efforts, I believe that our work product has serious deficiencies. In a nutshell, we nitpicked county departments while missing the bigger picture. We strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel. We didn’t see the forest for the trees. You get the point. Read more…

287(g) Program Nets 79,000 Illegal Aliens Since 2006

Read this.

The program – Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security, or ACCESS – trains law enforcement personnel as "jail enforcement officers" to identify people serving time in prisons who are in the country illegally, and as Task Force Officers, who enforce immigration law outside of the penal system, according to section 287 (g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

CNSNews.com – Federal, Local Law Enforcement Program Nets 79,000 Illegal Aliens Since 2006

287(g) a Victim of Its Own Effectiveness?

I read the GAO report cited in this AJC article, and so can you (PDF). The report did not criticize the program’s effectiveness, as alleged by AJC reporter Rhonda Cook. The report did criticize the program’s administration and, maybe, rightfully so. If the 287(g) program was intended to focus law enforcement resources on only the most violent or repetitive illegal alien offenders, then so be it.

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Gwinnett’s Immigration Enforcement Leaves Much to be Desired

Gwinnett County recently announced that it would comply with a 15-month-old state law that requires it to verify the citizenship status of applicants for a new business license or renewal. But the county’s strict interpretation of the law creates a loophole large enough for an illegal alien to crawl through.

Commission Chairman Charles Bannister knows this. He also knows that there is a more effective enforcement tool available to the county, yet he has refused to use it.

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Local Enforcement Is Working in Virginia

Attrition through enforcement is working in Prince William County, Virginia, and there are facts to prove it. According to Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, the county has experienced measurable benefit from its participation in the ICE 287(g) program.

And an adjoining county is not happy about it.

Speaking to a local political group, Stewart said that, In 2006, 21 percent of the county’s prisoners were illegal immigrants. Of the county’s nine murders in 2007, five were committed by illegal aliens. To date, the county has transferred to federal custody over 1,000 prisoners and arrestees. As a result:

The overall crime rate has dropped by 19 percent;
The dollar amount of hospital services to indigents has dropped significantly;
The number of births to uninsured women not on Medicaid dropped by 500, or approximately 40 percent, saving the county millions;

The number of students in “English for Speakers of Other Languages” (ESOL) programs has decreased;

Home sales are up by 116 percent over last year.

Nearby Fairfax County isn’t fairing as well. Crime has increased by 22 percent, and enrollment in ESOL programs has increased. A number of Fairfax County residents complained that Prince William’s enforcement had created a de facto “sanctuary city” in Fairfax.

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