Question : Should illegal aliens be detained when caught driving without a license?
Do you believe illegals should be detained whether they get picked up for driving without a license or any other charge?

Should 287G go into effect after conviction of a crime or at time of arrest?

Do you honestly believe that these lawbreakers will show up in court if they know they will be deported?

Won’t they run to another state and commit more crimes?
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The federal government will no longer detain illegal immigrants caught driving without a license in Nashville.

Instead, the federal system wants to use its bed space to house and deport the most dangerous offenders.

The change is good news to advocates who have complained from the beginning, in spring 2007, that the focus of the local immigration enforcement program is misplaced on people who are only committing traffic infractions.

In fact, one of the biggest criticism of the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office has been that all offenders, from those driving without a license to those committing violent felonies, are treated to the same punishment once they are identified as illegal immigrants.

The sheriff, who has stood behind the efficacy of the program, says he will continue to screen every foreign-born person arrested, whether they go directly to federal custody or not.

“Just because the federal government is saying we need to prioritize who is detained, doesn’t remove the fact they’ll be held accountable in the courtroom,” said Sheriff Daron Hall.

“There is no shift. We are still processing everyone for every crime.”

Most of the 5,300 people sent toward deportation from Nashville’s jail in the past two years spent weeks shuffled from one jail cell to another before being sent out of the country. About 75 percent of them were picked up on traffic offenses ranging from driving without a license to DUI; 25 percent were charged only with license offenses.

Those people will now be eligible to be released on their own recognizance, allowed to leave jail once they’ve resolved their local charges and have a court date to see an immigration judge in Memphis.

Clearer priorities
Overcrowding in the federal prison system coupled with an effort by the federal government to establish clearer priorities regarding deportation spurred the change.

Even though immigration advocates hail the federal decision, deportation is still likely for the illegal immigrants screened through the program — known as 287g.

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“For fairness and due process, the 287g program would best be implemented if it were used to screen after a conviction,” Weinberg said.
sagey – you did not answer the question. stop with the God bull already, you have no idea what religion I am and it does not play in the illegal alien problem. My job has nothing to do with the issue either. I do my job and do it very well. I fight against illegal invasion in my spare time. Whether it be at my break time or home time.
popeye – you are not an immigrant, immigrants have respect for laws, that is something you cannot have being an illegal.
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Yes and held in pens until we have enough to fill a flight to that particular country then drop them all off at once.