Gwinnett Daily Post Letters to the editor on Sheriff Conway’s application for 287 g

1/17/2009

Letters: No good reason to keep illegal prisoners in US

Is there really anything more to say about the wisdom of getting illegals out of our jails and back to their home country? I wish just one liberal would make a good case for otherwise.

Patricia Bloeser
Duluth

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Letters: BOC, sheriff are doing us right with enforcement

The 287g ICE surge at the Gwinnett jail is a positive step toward reducing crime in our county. These illegal aliens – yes, that’s what they are – were arrested for crimes. That’s why they’re in jail!

The protesting “out of town groups” don’t pay Gwinnett taxes like I do or worry about my safety from gangs or drug dealers. The BOC and Sheriff Conway are doing to right thing to get these criminals out of our county! Surge on!

Ken Craft
Norcross

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Letters: Immigrants must also follow laws

I wholeheartedly support this new program at the sheriff’s department and hope it sends a strong message that Gwinnett County expects our laws to be obeyed. Since the federal government won’t do its job in enforcing immigration laws, it falls to the local communities to do so.

This is not an anti-immigrant program. Legal immigrants are quite welcome here. But showing no respect for the laws of this country by sneaking across our border without proper documentation and then not being accountable for that crime is not acceptable.

Plain and simple, it’s a matter of enforcing our laws. If a person is here legally, they have no problem. If not, then they’ve committed a crime and there are consequences for criminal behavior. What’s so hard to understand about that?

Louise Stewart
Norcross

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