News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Cops plan ID checks of jailed immigrants

Tapping federal database could flag illegals, aid in deportation
By CHRISTIAN BOTTORFF
Staff Writer
Photo by JOHN PARTIPILO / THE TENNESSEAN
Published: Tuesday, 09/05/06

Thousands of illegal immigrants who are arrested in Davidson County for other crimes would be deported each year, under a proposal being pushed by local law enforcement officials.

By installing a federal immigration computer system in the Metro Jail and placing an immigration officer in the lockup full time, local authorities would be able to quickly identify criminal suspects who are in the country illegally and keep them from being released.

The proposal is contained in an Aug. 15 letter from Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and comes on the heels of several high-profile crimes in which illegal immigrants are accused.

Several of the illegal immigrants had been arrested repeatedly — and not deported — before committing more serious crimes.

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