Non-criminals in County Jails: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Will your local county Sheriff keep real criminals out of jails — just to make room for non-criminal or petty-criminal illegals — because they want the big money from ICE?
With help from U.S. hard-earned tax dollars, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is filling jails across the country with mostly non-criminal immigrants who have been torn away from their families, jobs and homes.
Tens of thousands of arrested immigrants are being held in county jails while they await court dates and eventual deportation.
The county governments are eager to receive immigrants into their jails because ICE (U.S. government) pays well. This is a double whammy for tax-payers who already pay local (city/state) tax as well as Federal income tax.
In conclusion, Americas Policy Program of the Center for International Policy notes…
Clearly the federal government has failed to create a sustainable immigration system. But involving local governments and police in immigration law enforcement and detention is not a solution. It just extends this failure to new levels of government.