Federal judge Sam Sparks in Austin says that some criminal cases against illegal immigrants present ”a cost to the American taxpayer [] that is neither meritorious nor reasonable,” reports the Austin American-Statesman. Most of those prosecuted in Austin have been identified by immigration officers at the jail and charged with illegal entry after deportation. Many defendants have no significant criminal history and until a change in enforcement strategy about two years ago would have been deported and not prosecuted.
Sparks ruled in cases against three Mexican citizens who had been deported and who returned to the U.S. without permission. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced by Sparks to the time they had already served and are being deported. Sparks wrote that it has cost more than $13,350 to jail the three men and noted that charging them criminally means additional costs and work for prosecutors, defense lawyers, court personnel, and others. “The expenses of prosecuting illegal entry and re-entry cases (rather than deportation) on aliens without any significant criminal history is simply mind-boggling,” Sparks wrote. He said the prosecutor could not state “a reason that these three defendants were prosecuted rather than simply removing them from the United States.”
Just one thing after another with these illegal aliens. Illegal aliens are destroying this country in so many ways, and one would have to be near blind not to see this. A serious crackdown on these illegal aliens has to start! E-Verify in EVERY business and EVERY employer checked! If they are illegal aliens, immediated deportation. Got a family?, they go with you (if illegal). E-Verify in VERY social service. Find an illegal alien, immediate deportation! By deporting these illegal aliens, we will save billions!
How much longer do we have to support these illegal aliens? How much longer do we have to school their illegal alien children? How much longer are we going to let them have our jobs? How much longer are we going to put up with all the crime, stolen identities, forged documents, fake green cards? How much longer are we going to allow these illegal aliens to send money out of this Country and bring our Country down? Oh, amnesty will correct all this. WRONG! Nothing will change except we wouldn’t be able to call them illegal aliens any more. Let’s get rid of these illegal aliens! Let’s get them back to their own Country where they belong!
I’m from Delaware, and we are pressing to get the Oklahoma State Illegal Immigration Law, HR 1804. passed here in Delaware. Three years ago we had about 32,000 illegal aliens here. Today we have about 68,000 illegal aliens here. We have had it! We want our State back!
I am a taxpayer who is really fed up with paying for illegals-I just got info from an ER worker in a border state who sees mothers from Mexico come over and have 8 babies-he sees them a lot. They are anchor babies we are paying for. Now we pay to send them home. Our state government needs to rectify this situation among others caused by illegal immigration.
how difficult would it be to report a re-entry illegal immigrant who actually does have a criminal record? What is the law protecting a person like this? If there is none, where do I start?