I feel like this information could be abused, let's say an inmate was involved in some gang shit, that would help people wanting to get to them when they get released.
I can see why the Sheriff would do that though.
I, too, feel like this information could be abused. Let's say there's a heavily armed organization of wildly racist door-kicking thugs abducting people from their families in broad daylight with the blessing of the federal government and zero accountability...
What are you talking about?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Not exactly the jail's job to protect inmates from the outside.
Maybe he's trying, but he's failing miserably with hyperbole.
they made that same argument about court houses and the judges were not pleased in the slightest.
This goes beyond a simple good-faith adherence to local jurisdiction. It's actively encouraging gestapo-type tactics from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and possibly perpetrators of anti-immigrant violence.
What happens if you just refuse to leave jail? Do they have to arrest you and keep you in jail for breaking the law, there-by giving you exactly what you wanted?
Why do people on here keep defending the idea that people who break laws while in the country illegally should be shielded from the federal authorities and deportation?
To me it sounds like borderline obstruction of justice, or is there something I’m missing which makes the process unjust or inhumane?
If he was on a gang's shitlist, it'll be easy enough for them to have their gangbangers on the inside take care of him.
The problem is that our immigration system is fundamentally broken and leads to families being torn apart for no good reason. When local or federal law enforcement reinforces an unjust system, resistance becomes a moral obligation..
I don’t think anyone wants to obstruct justice by shielding criminals from prosecution per se. On balance though, an undocumented immigrant is significantly less likely to commit a crime than a U.S. citizen. Furthermore, they contribute to our society in crucial ways. They constitute a huge labor force, contribute to the economy, and pay taxes. In most cases, they only crime they’ve committed is overstating a visa. In other words, their very existence on our side of the border is a crime in itself—not because of anything they’ve actually done to harm U.S. interests. It’s a backwards system that’s feeding into an ultimately self-destructive and racist mentality.
> On balance though, an undocumented immigrant is significantly less likely to commit a crime than a U.S. citizen.
The incarceration rate of illegal immigrants versus the general population is a ratio of something like 7:1 last I checked. All the studies I've seen that conclude that immigrants are more law-abiding are taking all immigrants into account, not just illegal immigrants.
Most illegal immigrants are well-meaning people who overstay their visas, along with refugees from the humanitarian crisis in Mexico, and pay more into the system than they take out. I'd like to see actual immigration reform followed by enforcement of the law to keep narco smugglers and human traffickers out, not just turning a blind eye to an exploitable underclass and saying 'well, most of them are okay, don't worry about it'.
But I was specifically referring to illegal immigrants who commit crimes other than being in the country illegally. I don’t see why they should be protected from federal authorities unless for some reason they would get deported regardless of a guilty or innocent verdict.
Wait is that what they’re doing?
ICE is a incredibly scummy, human rights violating organization that should be abolished or at least face some serious reform.
also this does not mean I want totally open borders or immigration laws to not be enforced, before anyone accuses me of this.
Remember the two ICE agents who allowed a kid to drink liquid meth at the border because he said it was water and they said prove it (knowing full well what it really was). Then afterwards they kept their jobs and faced no repercussions.
This reeks of a modern crypteia.
There's any number of reasons someone could have been in prison for. Ranging from murder to having an ounce of pot on them(Even if California legalized it just recently, there's still going to be people in for convictions prior to the change). While no one will argue that we want murders or other particularly nasty criminals, I don't think most people would want a person ripped out of the U.S. for having a small amount of some drug on them for personal use, or whatever similarly minor violation you can imagine, like maybe getting stopped with an expired driver's license.
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