Finally!

It looks like they are FINALLY going to do something about illegal aliens that are criminals. Oh, they are all criminals you say? Well, no, only the ones that double-dip and commit OTHER offenses, or at least that is the leftard definition. Well, at least this is a start.

Here's a link to: U.S. to Expand Immigration Checks to All Local Jails

The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President
George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every
person booked into local jails. In four years, the measure could result in a
tenfold increase in illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes and
identified for deportation, current and former U.S. officials said.

So far, so good. This starts to sound like a great idea, at least to this point.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has made it "very clear" that her top priority is deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, said David J. Venturella, program director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Whoops, Janet Napolean just threw her 2 cents into the ring. That is never good news. She only wants to catch the murderers and rapists, not the small-time crooks.

Based on the pilot program, the agency estimates that if fingerprints from all 14 million bookings in local jails each year were screened, about 1.4 million "criminal aliens" would be found, Venturella said. That would be about 10 times the 117,000 criminal illegal immigrants ICE deported last year. There are more than 3,100 local jails nationwide, compared with about 1,200 federal and state prisons.

Hmmmmm. If they check 14 million and 1.4 million are illegal aliens, that's about 10%. I'll bet the number is a lot higher than that!

But even some supporters of the program wonder whether it can be implemented smoothly and whether there will be sufficient funding. A surge in deportation cases, noted Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of homeland security for policy, would require more prosecutors, immigration judges, detention beds and other resources.

WHY? They serve their sentence at the local, State, or Federal prison and then they get put on a fucking bus and DUMPED on the other side of that God Damned fence we are supposedly building!! What in HELL is so hard to understand???

Venturella said ICE will give priority to deporting the most dangerous offenders: national security risks or those convicted of violent crimes. Based on initial projections, the agency estimates that 100,000 of these are "Level 1 offenders" and that deporting them would cost $1.1 billion over four years. Removing all criminal illegal immigrants would cost $3 billion, ICE estimated last year.

It doesn't have to cost much more than a ONE-way bus ticket and maybe a fucking bag lunch! Oh, shit, I don't even care about the cost. JUST DO IT!! Hell I don't! I just had to reopen this post when I noticed this. 1.1 BILLION amounts to $11, 000 EACH to ship their fucking asses back home! BULLSHIT!

Critics say that deporting the worst criminal illegal immigrants, by itself, does not go far enough because it would not fully address the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the United States or deter further illegal immigration.

I have to agree with this paragraph, for the most part. Send every one of them home ASAP. Where in HELL did the 11 million number come from? Shrinking the quantity every time it is reported on does NOT shrink the problem. We all know the number is certainly northwards of 20 million!

Amnesty International and immigrant advocates warn that the change could lead to immigration checks in other arenas and the "criminalization" of illegal immigration.

Man, I SURE HOPE that their fears are warranted on this one. The thing is, being an illegal alien IS ALREADY Criminal! There is no need to "criminalize" it.

Please read the whole article. I just had to comment on a few paragraphs, but you really should read it all. Now, if you all will excuse me, I have to go puke. That's what talking about illegals does to me.