Gwinnett Daily Post

Deputies finish immigration laws training

Enforcement begins Monday
Reporter: Heath Hamacher

Starting Monday, the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department will begin its limited enforcement of federal immigration laws. The 287(g) program — named after the section of immigration law that governs it — has been in the works in Gwinnett since Sheriff Butch Conway applied for it in March 2008.

“…King said the enforcement of immigration laws are not human rights violations. …“Illegal aliens should consider the consequences on their families before they commit the crime of illegal immigration, ID fraud and tax evasion,” he said. Foreign language newspapers and the ACLU regularly howl about illegals migrating out of Cobb because they now fear capture,” King said. “That was exactly the intent.”

For Conway, the numbers say it all. In January, a 26-day ICE campaign resulted in detainers being placed on 914 foreign-born inmates, 54 percent of whom had a criminal history, Conway said, with a “vast majority” of them having prior arrests Gwinnett.

Charges ranged from driving without a license and battery to serious felonies such as murder, rape, armed robbery and child molestation. HERE