Program to Find Illegal Immigrants in Jails Approved Los Angeles -- A program intended to root out illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County jails will start specifically targeting gang members, following a vote Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.
On a motion by Supervisor Michael Antonovich, the board voted to direct Sheriff Lee Baca to modify his department's agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure that known gang members receive priority for interviews that would determine their immigration status before their release from jail.
"Every known gang member who is on the list for an interview should be interviewed prior to release back into our communities," Antonovich said.
Inmates are already subject to an immigration interview if they are self declared to be foreign born, have been convicted and will serve out their sentence in a county jail as opposed to a state prison, said Anna Pembedjian, justice deputy for Antonovich.
Of those inmates, known gang members will now be at the front of the line for interviews, she said.
The move follows public outcry after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr., allegedly by a reputed gang member, whom authorities believe was in the country illegally.
The shooting occurred the day after the suspect was released from a county jail.
Shaw's parents were among the dozens of members of the public who requested to speak on the subject before the board voted in what quickly became the most heated and drawn-out portion of the meeting.
"We tell our kids that nationality and colors don't make a difference, but when you have the illegal alien gangbanger come in and killing his brother, or doing all kinds of harm to American citizens, it brings back up the color issue," Anita Shaw, Jamiel's mother, told the board. "Something has to be done."
Other members of the public spoke out against the immigration interviews, saying that they resulted in law enforcement officials targeting and deporting illegal immigrants who had committed only minor offenses.
Roughly 4,000 gang members are currently in county jails, according to Baca.
Los Angeles City Council continues to sit on their hands and see no evil, hear no evil, do nothing about no evil. Oh man, is L.A. City Council going down as a historic do-nothing, laughing stock of a bunch of inept and corrupt dummies.
[ZD says we are going to be living with this problem for quite a while on the streets because we DO NOT have the jail capacity to even scratch the surface -- AND WE WILL NOT HAVE THE JAIL SPACE FOR QUITE SOME TIME. But congratulations to Baca and Board of Supes for starting with this. YEAH, jail space is the problem and will continue to be the problem.
I WOULD START BY MAKING SURE THE MONEY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE IT INTO THESE COMMUNITIES -- ACTUALLY MAKES IT INTO THE COMMUNITIES FOR THE PURPOSE AT HAND! (ZD SAYS IT IS "NOT"!)
from fox 11.com
On a motion by Supervisor Michael Antonovich, the board voted to direct Sheriff Lee Baca to modify his department's agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ensure that known gang members receive priority for interviews that would determine their immigration status before their release from jail.
"Every known gang member who is on the list for an interview should be interviewed prior to release back into our communities," Antonovich said.
Inmates are already subject to an immigration interview if they are self declared to be foreign born, have been convicted and will serve out their sentence in a county jail as opposed to a state prison, said Anna Pembedjian, justice deputy for Antonovich.
Of those inmates, known gang members will now be at the front of the line for interviews, she said.
The move follows public outcry after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr., allegedly by a reputed gang member, whom authorities believe was in the country illegally.
The shooting occurred the day after the suspect was released from a county jail.
Shaw's parents were among the dozens of members of the public who requested to speak on the subject before the board voted in what quickly became the most heated and drawn-out portion of the meeting.
"We tell our kids that nationality and colors don't make a difference, but when you have the illegal alien gangbanger come in and killing his brother, or doing all kinds of harm to American citizens, it brings back up the color issue," Anita Shaw, Jamiel's mother, told the board. "Something has to be done."
Other members of the public spoke out against the immigration interviews, saying that they resulted in law enforcement officials targeting and deporting illegal immigrants who had committed only minor offenses.
Roughly 4,000 gang members are currently in county jails, according to Baca.
Los Angeles City Council continues to sit on their hands and see no evil, hear no evil, do nothing about no evil. Oh man, is L.A. City Council going down as a historic do-nothing, laughing stock of a bunch of inept and corrupt dummies.
[ZD says we are going to be living with this problem for quite a while on the streets because we DO NOT have the jail capacity to even scratch the surface -- AND WE WILL NOT HAVE THE JAIL SPACE FOR QUITE SOME TIME. But congratulations to Baca and Board of Supes for starting with this. YEAH, jail space is the problem and will continue to be the problem.
I WOULD START BY MAKING SURE THE MONEY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE IT INTO THESE COMMUNITIES -- ACTUALLY MAKES IT INTO THE COMMUNITIES FOR THE PURPOSE AT HAND! (ZD SAYS IT IS "NOT"!)
from fox 11.com
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