ANTIs and PROs agree on a few Immigration policies. I have published these policies before.1. Secure Borders
2. Sanctioning Exploiting Employers
3. Deporting Felonious Criminals - No citizen wants felonious criminals here and we support ICE´s efforts to deport them.
Effort aims to stop re-entry of deportees
By ANNA GORMAN and SCOTT GLOVER Los Angeles Times - Article Last Updated: 03/17/2008 01:47:53 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities are cracking down on immigrants who were deported and then re-entered the country illegally — a crime that makes up more than one-third of all prosecutions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a Los Angeles Times review of U.S. attorney's statistics shows. The surge in prosecutions reflects the government's push in recent years to detect illegal immigrants with criminal records in what may seem the most obvious of places: the state's jails and prisons. Immigration authorities have long combed inmate populations for illegal immigrants, but additional money and cooperation with local law enforcement have fueled an increase in such cases by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. The illegal re-entry charge is the single most prosecuted crime in the office.
Targeting criminals Prosecutors filed 539 such cases in fiscal year 2007, making up 35 percent of the total caseload, compared with 207 in 2006 — 17 percent of all cases. Statistics for the first four months of this fiscal year show the trend continuing.
Federal authorities touted the recent effort, saying the prosecutions serve as a deterrent for people who see the border as a turnstile. They said they were targeting violent gang members, career criminals and drug dealers who have returned to the United States after being deported — many of them repeatedly.
By ANNA GORMAN and SCOTT GLOVER Los Angeles Times - Article Last Updated: 03/17/2008 01:47:53 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities are cracking down on immigrants who were deported and then re-entered the country illegally — a crime that makes up more than one-third of all prosecutions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a Los Angeles Times review of U.S. attorney's statistics shows. The surge in prosecutions reflects the government's push in recent years to detect illegal immigrants with criminal records in what may seem the most obvious of places: the state's jails and prisons. Immigration authorities have long combed inmate populations for illegal immigrants, but additional money and cooperation with local law enforcement have fueled an increase in such cases by the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. The illegal re-entry charge is the single most prosecuted crime in the office.
Targeting criminals Prosecutors filed 539 such cases in fiscal year 2007, making up 35 percent of the total caseload, compared with 207 in 2006 — 17 percent of all cases. Statistics for the first four months of this fiscal year show the trend continuing.
Federal authorities touted the recent effort, saying the prosecutions serve as a deterrent for people who see the border as a turnstile. They said they were targeting violent gang members, career criminals and drug dealers who have returned to the United States after being deported — many of them repeatedly.
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