Clark Couny, Nevada. Getting on the program.
More and more localities are looking at trying to ease their jail crowding, judicial and societal cost by specifically targeting the worst of the worst illegals, those that have committed additional crimes since being here. Hence, these localities are waking up to how much better things would be if they could get illegals deported, out of their jails and off of their streets.
Metro is about to start a program that would make some Clark County Correctional Officers immigration agents.
Action News reporter Tania Reyes explains the reason behind the program.
The Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, is teaming up with Metro to get violent criminals out of local jails and out of the country.
On average 3,300 inmates are crammed into the Clark County Detention Center.
Besides overcrowding, there is also another problem.
The current system we have we cannot determine alienage.
Currently, 20% of the population being booked into the facility is foreign born but right now they cannot tell whether they are legal or illegal.
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