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.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Agents searching jails to find illegal immigrants

By Gillian Flaccus, The Associated Press
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Article Launched:01/29/2007 12:00:00 AM PST

SANTA ANA - Juan Martinez was looking forward to returning to his construction job after finishing a month long sentence for violating probation on drug charges.

But when he was finally released from the Orange County jail, he was met by immigration agents - not his mother. The 23-year-old illegal immigrant was set to be deported with $68 in his pocket and few prospects.

Martinez is among tens of thousands of illegal immigrants being identified at jails and prisons across the country.

Considered strategic chokepoints in the search for illegal immigrants, the lockups are being monitored by an increasing number of federal agents who screen foreign-born arrestees and deport those without proper documentation.

Federal authorities are also enlisting the help of local authorities to check out immigrants who are arrested.

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