North Carolina getting on the program.
There are a couple of things that popped up in this article that made me go, "Humm?"
Thank you, North Carolina. Now, if ICE will do their jobs.
As the New Year rolls in, so will a few new rules. One rule that will take effect come January 1st is a rule aimed at identifying undocumented immigrants in county jails.
There were about 35,000 people who were processed through the Wake County Jail this year.
Sheriff Donnie Harrison estimates about 10 percent to 15 percent may have been undocumented.
The new law means deputies will now be notifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents about suspect inmates. But Sheriff Harrison said the law only requires local jails to notify ICE agents.
“Just because we let them know, that doesn't keep these people from bonding out, if it's a bondable offense, lets say DWI,” said Sheriff Harrison.
He said there is often a problem lining up some inmates with an actual identity.
“This is only by name and the information that we can acquire from the person, this does not include finger prints,” said Harrison. WHY NOT fingerprints??? Tht sounds nuts. How else are you going to actually determine who they are, just take their word for it or their bogus IDs?
He said he has required his detention officers to send e-mail notices to ICE agents about suspect inmates since he took office. To date he said ICE has never responded with a request to detain an inmate for deportation proceedings. OUTRAGEOUS!!
This new regulation is a state law, so it has no power to compel ICE, a federal agency, to respond to local jails.
Harrison said it only affects certain crimes.
“We're talking about felonies and DWIs, and that's people that recognize themselves by being charged, I think that people's concern is; ‘Are we going out into the street to pick them up,’ the answer is no.”
Sounds like Georgia's laws. The question I have for ICE is how many of these reported illegals are actually going to get picked up and deported? I know in other jurisdictions ICE has started a policy that, unless the illegal is a bad guy, they don't do jack. At least the finger of blame won't fall on the departments that, at least, report suspected illegals to ICE. That's what I'd do, as a jailer, whether ir was required or not. I wouldn't want to learn that anyone died or was harmed by an illegal that had been in my jail but was released instead of being found out.
» Leave a comment
- Your E-mail address is never displayed. If you enter it, it will only be visible to the blog author
- The line and paragraph breaks automatically
