More damage of the 287 (g) ( What they mean is that enforcement works…)

Gwinnett was united to the list of police station with migratory faculties
The implementation in the agreement enters HOISTS and the jailers of several counties of Georgia generated the exit of the country of thousands of Hispanic. By Mario Guevara

12/31/2009

The 16 of November of 2009 will be an unforgettable date for the immigrants who reside in Gwinnett. The Office of the Bailiff began to process for its deportation to undocumented foreigners who fell imprisoned.

“Today it is a great day for all the citizens of the county”, was the phrase with which the bailiff of that locality, Butch Conway, presented officially the entrance in force program 287 (g), agreement with the Service of Immigration and Customs (HE HOISTS) that grants migratory faculties to its officials of the police station.

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” Stopped. An agent of HOISTS get ready to interrogate to a Hispanic inmate in the prison of the county of Gwinnett.

Gwinnett, the county of Georgia with greater number of Hispanic immigrants, according to the Bureau of the Census of EE.UU., thus became the fourth locality of the state in implementing the 287 (g). First it was Cobb (2007 July), followed by Hall (March of 2008) and Whitfield (June of 2008).

Only the first day of the application in the agreement, the 18 agents of Conway trained by HOISTS to investigate estatus migratory of the lengthy foreigners and abrir processes of deportation to 410 undocumented people they placed “hold of immigration”.

“The goal is to deport to all illegal one that it enters this seal”, stressed the civil servant. “For this reason, this program will be implemented the 24 hours of the day, the seven days of the week”.

Conway revealed that it had been two years fighting so that the Government allowed him to expel from the country to the outsiders without papers that are shut in the jail that it administers, because to its criterion that will save million to him dollars to the contributors.

It initiated another fight

Paralelamente to the dream made reality of Conway, several local organizations began another battle: to try to restrain the 287 (g), because in agreement with them it generates persecution by ethnic differences.

The defenders of the human rights carried out several forums to listen to the testimonies of supposed victims of racial profile on the part of the police.

With such events, the activists looked for tests that in Gwinnett the authorities carry out haltings being based on the physical appearance of an individual.

The spokeswoman of the American Union of Libertades Civiles (ACLU), Azadeh Shahshahani, assured that in Gwinnett there is racism.

“We followed standing up by social justice and because we do not want that this persecution continues”, Shahshahani declared. “The families are being separated”.

Reverendo the Tracy Blagec, representative of Atlantans Building for Leadership Empowerment (ABLE), also rejected the actions adopted in Gwinnett against the immigrants.

During the forums, tens of Hispanic counted their sad experiences with the forces of the law after to have infringed the transit regulation.

The compiled testimonies next will be set out in a report of human rights, as the one that presented/displayed some months ago in the county of Cobb and whose resolution was that there there is racial profile.

Of equal way, the Latin Alliance of Georgia ProDerechos Humanos (GLAHR) also realised a pair of educative events to inform to the community on the implications of the 287 (g) and of collection of bottoms to be able to demand to the sheriff.

However, in previous declarations, Conway bailiff has denied the existence of racial profile in the haltings and the application of the 287 (g).

“They are arguments that try to distract the people of the truth. No agency of the law persecutes a particular group of people”, said the civil servant on the matter. Nevertheless, ACLU, ABLE and GLAHR maintained the opposite.

For Conway, the one that leads a car without license commits a crime. “To handle without valid license it is a greater crime”, stressed. “Who handle in the streets and they do not understand our laws represent a danger for the society”.

Nevertheless, state law SB350 endorses that criterion solely when the violator is stopped by third time.

Thousands in Cobb…

translated (Babelfish) HERE
Original Mundo Hispanico “news” report HERE