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.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

ICE unit is placed in prison complex

Mar. 31, 2007 12:00 AM

The Arizona Department of Corrections on Friday unveiled an Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit inside the prison complex in Phoenix. The ICE unit is the nation's first to be built inside a prison.

Officials say the unit will house six Corrections Department employees trained and certified as ICE officers as well as two immigration officers and a supervisor. The goal is to expedite the deportation-determination process, beginning the day foreign nationals enter the state prison system.

In 2005, prison officials entered into an agreement with ICE to speed the deportation of eligible undocumented immigrants. Officials say the efforts have saved Arizona taxpayers nearly $9 million.

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