LA County Supes Ask for More Deportations of Gang Members
"Hearing from dozens of residents fed up with crimes
committed by gang members who are illegal immigrants, the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday asked Sheriff Lee Baca to prioritize and consider expanding a controversial inmate deportation program. Since the program started about two years ago, sheriff's officials trained by federal agents to screen for illegal immigrants in the jails have interviewed more than 20,000 inmates and referred more than 11,000 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible deportation," the LA Daily News reports. "Under the Tuesday motion, the board asked Baca to direct the 12 custody assistants conducting immigration interviews to give the highest priority to inmates who are known gang members."
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