Fingerprint sharing led to deportation of 47,000

[markw]

"WASHINGTON — Records show that about 47,000 people have been removed or deported from the U.S. after the Homeland Security Department sifted through 3 million sets of fingerprints taken from bookings at local jails.

About one-quarter of those kicked out of the country did not have criminal records, according to government data obtained by immigration advocacy groups that have filed a lawsuit."

So, looking at this another way, three-quarters of them had already made their presence known here by previous interactions with our legal system. Now, knowing the odds of getting caught the first time you break the law, what do you think?


Full story here.

 

[highfigh]

"As of Aug. 3, 494 counties and local and state agencies in 27 states were sharing fingerprints from jail bookings through the program."

OK, what am I missing? If their prints were on file because they were booked in jail, they were either suspected of a crime or actually committed crime, right? Isn't just being here without going through the proper procedures illegal? Did illegals go in and just tell them to fingerprint them? There's a Day Laborer organization in NY? How many of them are illegal? If it's illegal to hire illegals, how is it legal to form an organization to support them?

Might be a bit early to really dig in and start flapping.

 

[gmichael]

Why is it that logic does not aply to life?

 

[Stereodude]

The act of being here illegally is a crime (despite what Janet Incompetano says), so who cares if they don't have a criminal record? They already committed at least one crime by coming here.

Why is it that the US carefully regulates the amount of skilled workers we admit to the country on visas (because we don't want too many foriegn skilled workers in the job force) but somehow an open door policy to the lesser skilled who are sneaking into the country illegally is beneficial? If having countless lesser skilled workers was the key to a booming ecomony Mexico would be an economic powerhouse.

 

[highfigh]

The act of being here illegally is a crime (despite what Janet Incompetano says), so who cares if they don't have a criminal record? They already committed at least one crime by coming here.

Why is it that the US carefully regulates the amount of skilled workers we admit to the country on visas (because we don't want too many foriegn skilled workers in the job force) but somehow an open door policy to the lesser skilled who are sneaking into the country illegally is beneficial? If having countless lesser skilled workers was the key to a booming ecomony Mexico would be an economic powerhouse.

More Mexicans would be literate and therefore, suited for more skilled jobs, if Mexico had a decent education system. AFAIK, only some of the medium to large cities have schools and then, not all kids can go. Unless an unskilled & undocumented worker wants to and cares to, not learning to read and write in a language that will be beneficial to them will doom them to hard labor.

The only thing that keeps me from asking "Why doesn't the Mexican government come up with a comprehensive education system?" is what I posted in another thread- "An uneducated populace is a controllable populace". I have no reason to believe people South of the Rio Grande haven't been told to go to the US, either because they won't have any kind of life down there or because they want the money that's sent to the relatives. Those tens of Billions of dollars do nothing for the US economy and personally, I would like it to stop.

To add more fuel to the fire,....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU06_MHZQFk