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Deportations for locked up illegal immigrants to increase this year

January 15, 2008

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Well, maybe the outrage going on in this country is finally being heard at the upper echelons of government. The liberal New York Times today is reporting that the U.S is going to increase the deportation of illegal immigrants who are locked up in our prisons throughout the country.

Federal authorities expect to identify and deport more than 200,000 immigrants this year who are convicted criminals serving time in prisons and jails across the country, the country’s top federal immigration enforcement official said Monday.

The effort to speed the deportation of foreign-born criminals is part of a campaign by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to help federal and state prisons reduce the costs of housing immigrants, the official, Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security and head of the agency, said in an interview.

In 2007, Ms. Myers said, the agency, known as ICE, brought formal immigration charges against 164,000 immigrants who are behind bars nationwide for crimes committed in this country. Many of those immigrants are still in the United States and are also slated for deportation this year, she said. By comparison, in 2006, the agency identified 64,000 immigrants behind bars, most of whom were deported.

Obviously this should be just the start of securing our country and helping our overloaded social systems. There are much larger problems than just the criminal element that illegal immigrants bring to our country. Hopefully, 2008 will bring us closer to fixing our border security issues.

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