News, U.S. law enforcers move to deport offenders. (illegal, prison, interview)

[JD59]

SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - The inmate in the Orange County jail had been arrested before, but this time was different. After the first interview, he was led to a second, where he was told that if convicted he could be deported.

U.S. law enforcers move to deport offenders - Yahoo! News (broken link)

[JD.]

Great story. There are systems like this in quite a few prisons across the United States. The problem isn't with them, it is when the criminals are handed to I.C.E., they generally either 'overlook' them (as in the case of Zina Linnik), or show a strong unwillingness to deport them.

[Hawkeye48]

These guys should be deported. If an immigrant commits a deportable crime he has proven he is unworthy of remaining in this country and should be deported.

Another reason for local governments to cooperate with ICE is that once an illegal gets put on an ICE hold the federal government then covers the cost of housing the inmate. Which in many areas can greatly reduce stress on local government budgets.

[Dingler]

Deport them and they come back to America to commit more crimes in a week. Keep them in prison.