Should Convicted Criminal Illegal Immigrants Be Deported?

If the Border Stays Open, Your Checkbook Better Be Too

By Bobby Tall Horse, published Apr 16, 2008
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Our prisons are boiling over capacity with criminals. Convicted criminal immigrants make up a large number of inmates. IF it costs approximately $42,000 per inmate per year to house these illegal immigrants, should they be deported?

Even small rural towns like mine are having to cough up tax money to build new jails. No one wants to point to the criminal illegal immigrants that are filling the old jail. They just tell us that we need a bigger jail. Yet the papers are filled with names in the arrest column that points squarely to immigrants.

At first glance, a huge amount of Americans would say yes, deport the criminal illegal immigrants so we don't have to come up with tax money to pay for more jails and prisons. That seems reasonable, doesn't it? Well...

The U.S./Mexican border is leaking illegal immigrants like a sieve. And yes, many of them are criminal in their behavior here. What good would it do to deport them when they can and will turn right around and come back into the U.S.? Once here, will their criminal behavior change? I doubt that anyone thinks it will. Meantime, instead of being in prison where they cannot hurt anyone, they will be on the streets of our towns and cities continuing their criminal careers.

IF Mexico was truly a good neighbor, and IF Mexico really wanted an open door policy on the border, they would work with the U.S. They would take the criminal illegal immigrants back and put them in jail in their own country. Or, they would be paying for some new jails and prisons to be built in this country to accommodate the illegal immigrants.

But I don't see that happening. I would love to see them deported, so that the hardworking American's taxes aren't used to house them. But I don't see an upside to taking them back to Mexico and watching them come back across to continue their criminal ways.

Building the border fence is still the cornerstone to the illegal immigration problem. Especially the criminal ones. What could your community do with the money that goes to housing criminal illegal immigrants? What could our country do with that money?

 
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Interesting article dealing with a tough issue Bobby.

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Posted on 07/06/2008 at 9:07:20 PM

 
I believe they should.

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Posted on 04/20/2008 at 5:04:14 PM

 
The city of Los Angeles assisted the MS gang to become an international gang by deporting most of its members back in the late 90's and early 00's. Now MS is all over the US and in other countries as well. This subject is certainly a double edged sword because deportation is not enough. We need more help down on the border, and we need to take the gloves off... Great article.

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Posted on 04/20/2008 at 9:04:35 AM

 
I believe they should get deported...............................no question asked.............................

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Posted on 04/19/2008 at 6:04:14 PM

 
Yes, yes, yes, and YES! Illegal means you are "breaking the law." If we punish Americans for breaking the law, we must also punish those illegally here. Otherwise, it is just plain hypocritical.

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Posted on 04/18/2008 at 2:04:31 PM

 
Anon .. thanks for your comments..there is an automatic cut off..not sure how many words. If you want to finish, go ahead.

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Posted on 04/18/2008 at 10:04:29 AM

 
Half my post was cut off. The rest follows unless it gets cut off too: We've got a lot of aliens locked up on really long sentences for things like being drug mules, where they are paid to drive a vehicle across the country with drugs stashed somewhere in the vehicle. In my county these people often get decades in prison, and in other parts of the country they often just get deported. I'm a public defender and I've handled literally many thousands of pounds worth of drug mule cases. Most of these people have clean records, they often have families and believe it or not are often very religious. They are almost universally poor people with little education. Obviously they shouldn't do what they are doing, but I've certainly seen an awful lot of far more serious criminals get off with far lighter sentences for far worse crimes. People like this I think we should look at for early release and deportation. If they come back in and get caught, they'll end up having to serve the r

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Posted on 04/18/2008 at 8:04:00 AM

 
"early and early" = "earlier and earlier"

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Posted on 04/18/2008 at 8:04:32 AM

 
Early release makes sense for illegals convicted of some of the more minor felonies. Our legislators are always coming up with ways to let prisoners out early and early in order to deal with prison overcrowding. The same politicians that act all tough on crime end up having to figure out ways to clear out the prisons to make room for all the new convicts. We've gone absolutely nuts locking people up over the past few decades. Our per capita incarceration rate along with our total number of people behind bars is the highest in the world. It started in the late 1970's. We hit a new all time high record in 1979 and every year since we've beaten the old record. We now have several times as many people behind bars in total and on a per capita basis than we ever did at any time before the late 1970's. We've got a lot of aliens locked up on really long sentences for things like being drug mules, where they are paid to drive a vehicle across the country with drugs stashed somewhere in

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Posted on 04/18/2008 at 8:04:49 AM

 
Very important subject! Great read.

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Posted on 04/18/2008 at 7:04:29 AM

 
Instead of booting Mexicans to the border, We should put them on a jet and dump their sorry behinds in Can-Cun, Acapulco and Mexico City. When the mayors and governors of those cities/states have to deal with a couple of thousand delinquents in tourist havens, you'll see Mexico policing immigration on their side of the fence. Not only is it important to build the fence, imprison illegal alien employers, but also the non-profit organizations that aid illegals must be brought to prosecution. Take those away and the immigration advocates lose their big cash-cow.

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Posted on 04/17/2008 at 4:04:33 PM

 
It's ridiculous, knowing they could easily reenter the U.S. illegally, to release ANY illegal convicted of a serious crime. You failed to mention that reentering makes them autimatic Federal felons. Using stolen or fraudulent US ID is also a felony. As a citizen, I would gladly pay for bond measures building new prisons. However, I'd insist that the Fed. government bill and collect the cost of these new prisons from Mexico--where almost all of the illegals are coming from. Only a tough President wold do this, and none are visible on the horizon.

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Posted on 04/17/2008 at 1:04:34 PM

 
The answer is to offer them early release/deportation upon their acceptance of an RFID chip, so that they may be located immediately upon reentry. Otherwise, they should do their time. Follow the lead of Joe Arpaio of Maricopa Country Arizona. He feeds them (all prisoners) peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches and houses them in tents in the desert. He also pipes in patriotic music. It extremely cost effective to the taxpayor. Or, put them to work in chain gangs in the fields. I understand that the farmers in your region are screaming for imported workers. Well, there you go. ...talk about cheap labor...

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Posted on 04/17/2008 at 1:04:32 PM

 
The only thing owed to the illegal alien is a one way ticket to Mexico! A STA LA VISTA Translated: Don't let the door knob hit you where the good lord split you!

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Posted on 04/17/2008 at 1:04:48 PM

 
I'm with Nikki..The answer to your question is: YES.. YES ..YES!!!!

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Posted on 04/16/2008 at 10:04:36 AM

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