Former Sheriff Mike Carona once boasted that Orange County turned over more inmates for deportation than any other jail in the nation. Costa Mesa’s mayor offered no apologies for checking the immigration status of jaywalkers and disorderly drunks who hadn’t even been arrested.
Now – more than two years after OC Watchdogs investigated U.S. efforts to deport undocumented immigrants accused of crimes; and one year after a U.S. Governmental Accountability Office report concluded that the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement failed to supervise the “287(g)”program adequately, and that local police used their newfound authority “to process for removal aliens who have committed minor crimes such as carrying an open container of alcohol;” and months after the program was revamped to try to fix the problems - a report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General says much remains the same.
The deportation program is still poorly managed and supervised. It still lacks clear guidelines for local law enforcement to follow (which means the law is applied differently in different areas). It still fails to gather the data needed to figure out how the program is actually doing. And it still isn’t holding law enforcement agencies responsible when they violate the terms of their agreement with the feds.
{Posted by Brenda Diaz}
http://taxdollars.freedomblogging.com/2010/04/02/feds-fail-to-control-local-cops-with-immigration-power/54521/
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