Greg Ball to announce enforcement bill
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At his forum Saturday, Assemblyman Greg Ball will be announcing a new bill on immigration enforcement. (I’ll link to the legislation when it’s available.) Here is a link to the legislation. This one would have various provisions; the main one aims to ensure that prison inmates who are illegal immigrants are turned over to federal authorities instead of being released back into the community, he said today. The bill calls for an agreement that would confer immigration-enforcement duties on New York correction officers, state troopers and certain county sheriff’s departments.
Ball says in a press release:
Provisions of the legislation will create a seamless web of law enforcement in New York State, and protect taxpayers from unscrupulous vendors doing business with the State. The bill also prohibits so-called “sanctuary cities” within the State of New York and mandates that deportable criminal aliens held in prisons throughout the state are only released into the custody of federal authorities.
The following officials and advocates are attending, according to the assemblyman:
Jim Pendergraph, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement’s executive director of state and local coordination
Dutchess County Deputy Sheriff Kirk Imperati
Putnam County Under-Sheriff Peter Convery
Orange County Sheriff Carl DuBois
New York City Sheriff Lindsay Eason
Under-Sheriff Bob Najmulski, Allen County, Ohio
Suffern Police Chief Clark Osborn
Suffern Mayor John Keegan
Steven C. Mannion, attorney advising Morristown and Suffern on 287(g)
Suffolk County Sheriff Department
Westchester County Legislator Peter Harckam
Ed Kowalski, Peter Gadiel and Jim Staudenraus of 9/11 Families for a Secure America
Mike Cutler, fellow of Center for Immigration Studies
A press conference starts at 12:30 p.m. in Mahopac, location to be determined. The form is from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Mahopac Public Library.
Update April 18: Pendergraph is not likely to come after all, Ball says, and the Putnam Sheriff’s Department says Undersheriff Convery is not likely to attend either.
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Criminal Aliens comprise today 1/3rd of Federal prison population, and this is the single fastest growing cohort in the population.
The GAO recently analyzed the rap sheets of more than 55,000 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003.[Source: General Accountability Office, “Information on Certain Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States,” Letter to Congressman John N. Hostettler, May 9, 2005.]
It found:
The average criminal alien was arrested for 13 prior offenses
12 percent were for murder, robbery, assault and sexually related crimes
Only 21 percent were immigration offenses; the rest were felonies
81 percent of their arrests occurred after 1990
In a word, criminal aliens are not your casual law breaker. Most are recidivists—AKA career criminals. The economic burden they impose on victims, including loss of income and property, uncompensated hospital bills, and emotional pain and suffering – has been estimated at $1.6 million per property and assault crime offender. [Source: Anne Morrison Piehl and John J. DiLulio, “Does prison pay?”]
Ball immigration bill opposed by state correction officials
Assemblyman Greg Ball says his new immigration enforcement bill is a pragmatic step that targets only criminals, but one of the major players in his proposal, the state Department of Correctional Services, is not interested.
The bill calls for training state police, county sheriff departments and state correction officers to take on the duties of identifying and deporting foreign-born criminals under a deal with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We feel that it would be a waste of state taxpayers’ money for us to do this training when we already have well-trained federal investigators through ICE, who are basically at our disposal if we need them and do this kind of work all the time for us,” department spokesman Erik Kriss said.
Under an existing program, ICE investigates inmates flagged by prison personnel as being foreign born and handles the proceedings from there, Kriss said.
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My comments to the article:
1st post:
The bill calls for training state police, county sheriff departments and state correction officers to take on the duties of identifying and deporting foreign-born criminals under a deal with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
All illegal immigrants absolutely need to be identified ASAP, once LE arrests them, to keep any of them from slipping through the cracks. The only way this can be done is if LE receives ICE 287g training enabling them to use the DHS E-Verify database, which will allow them to immediately identify the illegals.
The ignorant politicians state that “We feel that it would be a waste of state taxpayers’ money for us to do this training”, when the real waste of taxpayers of money is having them in office, allowing illegal immigrants to cost us far more than the cost of the Wars in Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Illegals must be forced to leave our country, and the ICE 287g traing very successfully accomplishes this.
I have a list email addresses of Democratic New York State Senators, and Assembly persons, that I am going to dig out , and post here. Hopefully the good citizens of new York will use it to let their representatives know that status quo is not an option, and that 287g training is needed by NY Law Enforcement.
2nd post:
Illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers far more than the Wars in Iraq, and Afghanistan. In example:
As with all states, education is California’s single largest public expenditure and commands 42% of that state�s $150 billion budget. The State of California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office reports that of the state’s 6.4 million K through 12 public school students, one out of four is not fluent in English. Of that number, 85% are Spanish speaking. Additionally, one out of nine of these students require special education programs.
These children of Spanish speaking foreign immigrants increase California’s K-12 enrollment by 21.3%, nearly 1.4 million students. At $11,584 each, which is the state�s 2007-2008 budgeted allocation per student, the cost of educating these students is $15.8 billion. Add in the $1.3 billion for special programs to accommodate non-English speaking students, and the cost increases to $17.1 billion. The state’s current budget deficit is projected to be $16 billion.
Incarceration of illegal immigrant criminals in California State prisons, alone, costs 1.4 billion dollars a year.
Then there’s the cost of Healthcare, Welfare, Food Stamps, Section-8 Housing, the judicial system, and very high added law enforcement costs.
287g will actually enable New York residents to save money.
New York State Democratic Senators, and Assembly members, who supported Spitzer’s Driver’s Licenses for illegals
eadams@senate.state.ny.us; breslin@senate.state.ny.us; connor@senate.state.ny.us; diaz@senate.state.ny.us; dilan@senate.state.ny.us; duane@senate.state.ny.us; gonzalez@senate.state.ny.us; hassellt@senate.state.ny.us; shuntley@senate.state.ny.us; lkrueger@senate.state.ny.us; montgome@senate.state.ny.us; onorato@senate.state.ny.us; oppenhei@senate.state.ny.us; parker@senate.state.ny.us; perkins@senate.state.ny.us; sabini@senate.state.ny.us; sampson@senate.state.ny.us; schneide@senate.state.ny.us; serrano@senate.state.ny.us; masmith@senate.state.ny.us;stavisky@...ly.state.ny.us; eddingp@assembly.state.ny.us; engles@assembly.state.ny.us; ramosp@assembly.state.ny.us; sweeney@assembly.state.ny.us; lavinec@assembly.state.ny.us; schimelm@assembly.state.ny.us; hoopere@assembly.state.ny.us; weisenh@assembly.state.ny.us; zebrowskik@assembly.state.ny.us; JaffeeE@assembly.state.ny.us; ballg@assembly.state.ny.us; cahillk@assembly.state.ny.us; mcenenj@assembly.state.ny.us; canestr@assembly.state.ny.us; aubertd@assembly.state.ny.us; liftonb@assembly.state.ny.us; johns@assembly.state.ny.us; morellj@assembly.state.ny.us; ganttd@assembly.state.ny.us; koond@assembly.state.ny.us; schimmr@assembly.state.ny.us; peoplec@assembly.state.ny.us; hoyts@assembly.state.ny.us; schroem@assembly.state.ny.us; parmenw@assembly.state.ny.us