Las Vegas Review-Journal

Las Vegas police refer 2,000 inmates to immigration officials

The Metropolitan Police Department forwarded the names of nearly 2,000 inmates to federal immigration officials during the first 10 months of a controversial partnership that allows specially trained corrections officers to start deportation proceedings against immigration violators…

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Center for Immigration Studies HERE

Washington D.C.

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By Jon Feere, April 16, 2009

In all, the paper reads more like an ACLU press release than serious academic research.

Inaccurate Legal Analysis. When it comes to legal writing, lawyers are taught to cite every claim, especially those that are not easily recognized as absolute fact by the general public. But here’s one example of many where the UNC-ACLU authors make dramatic claims with no citation to any statistical research:
[S]ince the implementation of § 287(g), Hispanic-appearing residents in particular have reported discriminatory abuses related to the program’s implementation. These abuses include harassment of legal residents and citizens and subsequent alienation of ethnic communities from police authority and protection.

Quite simply, the authors of the UNC-ACLU report are spreading inaccurate and/or dishonest legal analysis.

Fear and accusations. Perhaps the most unintentionally humorous statement in the piece is the following: “Instead of fear and prejudice, this policy review endeavors to approach the topic with qualitative and quantitative data.” But in making their argument, the authors compare the removal of illegal aliens to Japanese internment camps during World War II. They warn of “economic devastation” as a result of immigration law enforcement. They claim 287(g) creates “a fear of law enforcement,” “racial profiling and baseless stereotyping,” and “isolation of the Hispanic community.”

The report is full of these scare tactics; qualitative and quantitative data is an afterthought.

Marietta Daily Journal
October 9, 2009

Open-borders lobby: Ignore ’96 immigration law!
D.A. King
Guest columnist

With more than 15 million Americans out of a job and “undocumented workers” – primarily from Mexico – still sneaking over our borders, most of us recognize that illegal immigration is not and never has been about a “labor shortage.”

From the illegal alien’s point of view, it is about the reality that life in the USA is better than in the Third World. For now.

From the far-left fringe like the ACLU and the rabid, ethnic-based open-borders lobby, illegal immigration – and the growing constituency it brings – is about increasing political power needed to tear down America, its traditions, common language and our national unity. Not to mention the hated immigration laws.

Groups like the ACLU, La Raza and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials oppose every action aimed at punishment for the fugitives who have avoided capture at our borders. Their constant race-baiting smears have become merely a transparent reminder of their true allegiance.

For the chamber of commerce it is about a constant supply of “cheap” labor. Witness the years-long series of lawsuits by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce intended to stop a Bush-era executive order that mandates use of the federal E-Verify database for federal contractors. The order was only recently actually enacted. Score one for the American worker – if it is actually enforced.

The common enemy of all of the groups in this un-American alliance? Enforcement of American immigration laws. Which brings us to section 287(g) of the 1996 federal Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Simply known as “287(g),” it provides for expanding the existing and inherent authority of local law enforcement to help the under-staffed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency locate and deport illegally present aliens who have been arrested for additional crimes. That includes any crime. 287(g) was never intended to focus only on illegals arrested for felonies. And that no one is deported for a broken tail light. The singular reason for deportation is violation of immigration laws.

Because it is far too successful, 287(g) is under relentless nationwide attack. The demand from those who depend on illegal alien “victims” is that Obama end the program that has been so efficient in repatriating illegals discovered in our jails.

Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren was the first in Georgia to use the 287(g) program. He has found thousands of illegal aliens in his jail and turned them over to ICE since July 2007. There are now three other sheriffs with 287(g) authority, with Sheriff Butch Conway in Gwinnett sending 18 deputies who work in his jail to be federally trained next week.

The open-borders extremists are apoplectic. Their assumption was that President Obama would somehow stop enforcement of immigration laws – especially use of 287(g) – when he moved into the White House. He can’t. He must be able to at least claim he is trying to enforce immigration laws when he begins to peddle another amnesty early next year.

So the absurd howls that screening all foreign-born prisoners coming into local jails for immigration status is “racial profiling” and that removing illegal aliens from our midst somehow “makes the community less safe” have increased in volume and frequency.

As I write, the ACLU and a group called “Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment” are reportedly planning a Monday protest against 287(g) on Marietta Square. Interested readers can “Google” an ACLU “how to” publication on opposing 287(g) titled “Local Police and Immigration Laws Workshop” to see what to expect in the way of mindless talking points.

In the Gwinnett jail during a 26-day trial run for 287(g) this year, more than 900 illegals were discovered and deported. More than half had a previous criminal history. New charges included murder (13), rape (15), kidnapping (11), child molestation (23) and 154 for felony drug offenses.

If the anti-enforcement fringe actually shows up on the Square Monday – about 10 a.m. – readers may want to stop by and ask the protesters exactly how deporting any illegal aliens has made any American community “less safe.” I will.

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society, which advocates for enforcement of immigration and employment laws.

ORIGINAL COLUMN AND COMMENTS HERE

Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal

Here’s Your ‘Change’: 10,000 applications for 90 factory jobs

Job seekers filed 10,000 applications over three days with General Electric for 90 openings paying about $27,000 a year building washing machines, General Electric spokeswoman Kim Freeman said Thursday. — GE advertised the jobs Sunday, and began accepting applications and resumes solely via a company website Monday…

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Latin American Herald-Tribune — Caracas

Gunmen storm Mexican hospital to finish off wounded enemies

Assailants armed with assault rifles burst into a hospital in the northern Mexican state of Durango and killed three men being treated for gunshot wounds, the state Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday. — Wounded last Saturday on the streets of Villa Union, the three men received initial treatment on the scene from the Red Cross…

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Enforcement works and 287 (g) is alive and functioning well, including in Maricopa County Arizona …and Georgia
D.A. King
October 8, 2009

While the outrage and concern over the changes in the 287 (g) agreement between Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and the DHS is certainly understandable, it seems that reports of 287 g’s demise in Maricopa County – and the nation – are premature.

It is true that many interested parties are trying to kill 287 (g) – you can see a recent letter to the president HERE – but it is not as bad as it may seem. Pro-enforcement Americans should all calm down a little.

Arpaio has not lost his ability to use the 287(g) section of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.

What has happened is that in addition to altering and standardizing all 287 (g) agreements with local law enforcement, DHS has eliminated Arpaio’s authorization to use 287 (g) trained deputies on the street.

The Maricopa sheriff’s office can continue use of the valuable federal 287 (g) authority and database to screen non-citizens for immigration status who are charged with local crimes and are brought into his jail.

This is important to understand.

According to a recent New York Times report Arpaio says:

“the vast majority of the 33,000 arrests of illegal immigrants his office has made in the past two years under the agreement followed a check on the immigration status of people in jails. About 300 have been arrested in the field during “crime suppression” operations…”

This is the case with the huge majority of local law enforcement agencies using 287 (g) authority.

In most cases, having been incarcerated, the illegal’s fingerprints are now on file with law enforcement. Even if the local charges do not result in deportation, having become known to law enforcement and fingerprinted serves as a very strong deterrent for the illegals to remain in the community using 287 (g).

And the deterrent factor extends to illegals who have not yet been apprehended. Recognizing the mere possibility of arrest, illegal aliens are migrating out of communities using 287 (g) nation wide.

Reports of 287 g being gutted or rendered nearly useless are inaccurate and un productive. They will also inadvertently serve to assist the anti-enforcement lobby in discouraging additional local law enforcement agencies from applying for the badly needed and efficient 287 g tool.

As a hard and fast rule of thumb on immigration law enforcement, to understand what works, one has only to listen to the howls from the anti-enforcement crazies.

We can all feel better about 287 (g) in general and Arpaio’s ability to continue to use 287 g in particular by reading the October 6th press release from the outraged ACLU “ICE Should Terminate Maricopa County 287(g) Agreement Scaling Back Sheriff Arpaio’s Immigration Enforcement Authority Does Not Go Far Enough, Says ACLU.”

287 (g) is proving to be as efficient and productive as the immigration law enforcement force multiplier it was designed to be.

Here in Georgia, there are now four sheriffs with 287 (g) authority. The results are predictable and very visible in that all the right enemies are endlessly working to eliminate existing use. And to stop more sheriffs from gaining access to the federal power to use the database which reports immigration status of non citizens arrested for crimes in addition to illegal immigration.

Most recently, Metro Atlanta’s Gwinnett County has signed an MOA with ICE and will send 18 deputies to be federally trained to use 287 (g) in the county jail next week.

Brilliantly illustrating the effectiveness of 287 (g), the ACLU has founded and supports the ‘Georgia Detention Watch’ here in the Peach State. Their stated objective:

“We are dedicated to stopping the proliferation of 287(g) Agreements between localities and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as well as other attempts at local enforcement of immigration laws in Georgia…”

Interested readers should read the ACLU ‘how to’ publication on opposing 287 (g) titled “Local Police and Immigration Laws Workshop” to see the universal mindless talking points from the anti-enforcement mob.

Their objections rest mainly on two points. One that 287 (g) somehow results in “racial profiling.” They are ever hopeful that the general public will not realize that all non citizens are screened for immigration status after having been charged with local crimes.

The other is that local enforcement of American immigration laws somehow “makes the community less safe.”

In preparation for Gwinnett’s application for 287 (g) authority, earlier this year, and in partnership with Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway, ICE conducted a 26 day trial run on screening inmates in the county jail. The results were startling even for the most seasoned and experienced authorities on 287 (g).

In the 26 day period, more than 900 illegal aliens were discovered in Gwinnett’s jail. More than half had prior criminal records.

Thirteen illegals had been charged with murder. Eleven with kidnapping, fifteen with rape and twenty- three with child molestation. The complete list of charges can be read here from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Most Americans will take a dim view of the demented opinion that use of 287 (g) and deporting illegal aliens is somehow making Gwinnett County, Georgia – or America – “less safe.”

While 287 (g) is saving American lives and jobs, what we are proving nationwide is quite simple: Enforcement works.

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, a non partisan, multi-ethnic coalition actively dedicated to enforcement of American immigration and employment laws. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

Marietta Daily Journal- REPOST
Enforcement works, whether on immigration or illegal gambling
By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, October 19, 2007

“California is going to become a Hispanic state and if anyone doesn’t like it they should leave, they ought to go back to Europe.” – Mario Obledo, founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1998.

“This has set us back tremendously.” – Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials on Cobb County’s policy of using available federal tools to enforce American law. (as reported by the Atlanta newspaper), Oct. 24, 2006.

Having long studied illegal immigration and the characters involved in that organized crime here in Georgia, it is very interesting to me to watch as GALEO’s Jerry Gonzalez receives media attention in the MDJ and elsewhere.

Gonzalez hopes we will believe that equal application of the law is somehow “anti-immigrant” “anti-Latino” and “discriminatory.”

Coming from the far, far left and, rather comically, ignoring the fact that most Americans recognize the difference between a legal act and those that violate the laws most of us are held to, Gonzalez is shameless in his never-ending attempt to equate all Hispanics/Latinos and real immigrants with illegal aliens. What could be a greater insult to Latinos – or be more anti-immigrant?

Gonzalez is now howling “discrimination” because Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren is using his authority to alert the feds to illegal aliens who have committed additional crimes. This – and Gonzalez’s marching with MALDEF in the streets of Atlanta last year leading self-announced illegals demanding an end to enforcement of American immigration and employment laws – provides clear insight into GALEO’s real agenda.

Because he presents himself as speaking for an entire ethnic group, a question: Why does the law-abiding Latino community not raise its voice and disavow this race-baiter?

My friend Olga Robles, who lives a few blocks from the U.S.-Mexican border in Douglas, Ariz., is very familiar with people like that. Her family came here from Mexico many years ago. She will proudly tell you that she is an American. No hyphen. But she is called an “apple polisher for the ‘Gringos,” when she speaks up against illegal border crossers who swarm into her yard at night.

For his demand that America secure its borders and enforce its immigration and employment laws, my friend – and a former Canyon County Commissioner in Idaho Robert Vasquez – is called a “coconut” (brown on the outside, white on the inside). Vasquez, a Vietnam War veteran who left part of his right leg there, happens to be of Mexican descent.

One must wonder where the Americans like Olga Robles and Vasquez are here in Georgia.

We guess that Gonzalez and MALDEF are not too keen on organizations like “You Don’t Speak for Me,” a national group that describes its purpose as “American Hispanic voices speaking out against illegal immigration.”

We would all be better off if the big donor money – including that from Jane Fonda, State Farm Insurance company and the local Teamsters Union 728 – was going to these folks instead of GALEO, and if UGA’s Fanning Institute chose a more pro-American organization with which to form a “partnership.”

Gonzalez is less than happy to know that little tidbits of facts like these get out to the public, particularly from this American. His normal response is to wail that a “convicted felon” should not be allowed to speak out against illegal immigration or ethnic hustlers. The criminal conviction here is true enough.

In 1977, this writer admitted to taking bets on football games and was punished by the U.S. court system with a fine and probation.

I never thought to use the “I was just looking for a better life” defense – or to scream that having violated the law, I could blame enforcement on “discrimination.” Because enforcement works, I would put the odds of my ever gambling illegally again at a thousand to one. Enforcement of our immigration laws will eventually have the same result on illegal aliens and criminal employers.

As for Gonzalez, GALEO and MALDEF, one can only hope that Americans don’t judge all Latinos by their actions.

Gonzalez often hosts showings of a “documentary” titled “Fighting 529” on Georgia college campuses. If you want to see why he thinks Georgia’s 2006 law (SB 529) aimed at illegal immigration is “discriminatory,” don’t miss it.

D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Cobb-based non-profit actively opposed to illegal employment and illegal immigration.

Read the complete article.

Everyone should chill out about the changes in 287 (g)!

Most of the illegals turned over to ICE for deportation are found in the jail system. We can still arrest illegal laiens for violations of American law – and send them to feds for deportation , WHY DO YOU THINK THE OPEN BORDERS CRAZIES ARE SO FREAKED THAT OBAMA DIDN’T KILL 287 g?

NEW YORK TIMES:

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, with some 160 federally trained deputies, is the largest in the program and the most closely scrutinized by people on all sides of the immigration debate.

Mr. Arpaio conceded that the vast majority of the 33,000 arrests of illegal immigrants his office has made in the past two years under the agreement followed a check on the immigration status of people in jails. About 300 have been arrested in the field during “crime suppression” operations, he said. He called those arrests symbolically important.

“It has to do with public perception,” he said, noting reports that some illegal immigrants are leaving the area in part because of his deputies. “I think the bad guys apparently are leaving because they know they are here illegally. This is a crime deterrent program, too.”…

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Miami Herald

Feds vow to continue immigration enforcement

In response to widespread criticism from immigrant advocates, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced steps Tuesday to improve conditions of detainees and allow them easier access to attorneys. — But Napolitano stood firm on the Obama administration’s efforts to continue strict enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws…

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Note from D.A.- this represents more than 2 years of hard work from all of us at the Dustin Inman Society – THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

Gwinnett Daily Post

10/7/2009

287(g) moves forward
Deputies will begin deportation training

By Camie Young
Senior Writer

LAWRENCEVILLE – Gwinnett deputies will leave next week for training on beginning deportation proceedings of illegal immigrants, after commissioners approved an agreement with the federal government Tuesday.

“We have such a large population of illegal aliens from countries around the world living here,” Sheriff Butch Conway said in a statement. “Now, we will have an avenue when someone is arrested to check their immigration status and place a hold on them for deportation if they are not here legally.”

The 287(g) program is expected to cost about $971,800 in 2009.

Tracy Blagec, a leader with Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment, said she was disappointed by the decision. She said she is concerned that the program will exacerbate an already existing racial profiling problem in the county.

“I think the community is going to be very disappointed,” she said, adding that the financially struggling government could afford the program. “It bodes very poorly for Gwinnett.”

Blagec said her group would continue to lobby federal officials to try to halt the Immigration and Customs Enforcement program.

Chairman Charles Bannister said he was glad to see the much-debated and locally popular program move forward.

“It’s what everybody thinks we ought to be doing,” he said, adding that he was also concerned about the costs.