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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeanne_N who wrote (111)	2/8/2003 8:41:52 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 3197

Probably have 2 or 3 million O'odhamanites running around wondering who they are, ya think?

To: Jeanne_N who wrote (111)	2/9/2003 7:58:41 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

Arizona may lose federal aid to jail illegal immigrants Bush wants states to pick up tab By Sergio Bustos Gannett News Service Feb. 5, 2003 WASHINGTON - For the second straight year, President Bush wants to kill a program that helps hundreds of state and local governments, including Arizona, recoup part of the costs of keeping criminal immigrants behind bars. In sending his 2004 budget wish list to Congress on Monday, Bush proposed eliminating the 8-year-old State Criminal Alien Assistance Program because it does not fit with the Justice Department's main mission. The new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. Making matters worse for state and local governments: A request by border lawmakers to fund the program in fiscal 2003, which began last October, is still bottled up in Congress. Lawmakers want more than $500 million. If the program is scratched from the federal budget, every state will lose money. But Arizona, California, New York, Texas, Florida and New Jersey stand to lose the most because they are home to the most illegal immigrants. California and its local governments got almost $226 million in 2001. Arizona and its local governments got $23.8 million. The funding included $3.1 million for Maricopa County and $733,848 for Pima County. Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, which has jurisdiction over the program, said he will fight to get the funding approved by Congress. "Illegal immigration is a federal responsibility and the financial consequences of a failed border policy should not be imposed on states," the Tucson Republican said. The federal money, however, does not fully reimburse local and state governments the total costs for incarcerating illegal immigrants who commit crimes. On average, the reimbursement covers less than 40 cents of every dollar spent, according to Justice Department officials who manage the program. Ironically, when Bush was Texas governor he railed against Congress and the Clinton administration for not giving states enough money to cover the cost of jailing illegal immigrants convicted of crimes. "If the federal government cannot do its job of enforcing the borders, then it owes the states monies to pay for its failure," Bush said in 1995. At the time, Texas had lost a lawsuit claiming that the federal government owed it $5 billion for the costs of dealing with illegal immigrants. Today, Bush administration officials have argued that the program doesn't "advance the core mission of the Justice Department." Border lawmakers aren't buying the argument. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said the federal government would be shirking its responsibilities if it does not come up with the money. "Border counties and states are drowning in red ink because they are forced to foot the bill for the federal government's failure to secure our border," Flake said. "It's only fair that the federal government reimburse states." arizonarepublic.com

To: Jeanne_N who wrote (111)	8/23/2003 12:29:13 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

what used to be INS I guess is ICE today, I-C-E. That group has a database that puts in it illegals who have skipped bail, who have not come to court, who have been convicted of crimes and absconded, who are convicted of unrelated crimes to immigration and been ordered deported. They have it in there but it does not go into the NCIC, National Crime Information Center, which is what police officers access. If they stop you on the street they’ll run your name in NCIC and they’ll have a warrant out for you, American citizen, bank president, member of Congress; they’ll put you in the slammer, but the systems they are accessing do not have people who are here illegally, who’ve committed crimes, who have court orders against them. That really makes no sense to me, so we’ve set up this system – and I think it will have the potential to be effective – that we can access this separate system that most law officers in America don’t even know exists and certainly don’t know how to exercise it when they are out on the road and they make a stop. And I think that will be a big help for us, and we’ll have a good report on that, how that can work. But I would say, to me it should be in NCIC. All those warrants for serious offenses ought to be in this system that’s routinely accessed, because most people – most officers are going to hesitate to run two systems now when they are out on the highway trying to make a stop. ( A GREAT READ!} cis.org