U.S. gets tougher on criminal immigrants

[kjl]

U.S. gets tougher on criminal immigrants
by Daniel González - Aug. 16, 2009 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
José Samaniego-Lara, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, has a lengthy criminal record.
His rap sheet includes a 1995 conviction for false imprisonment, a 1997 conviction for assault and a 2003 conviction for carjacking in which Samaniego-Lara held the driver at knifepoint before stealing his truck, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
For years Samaniego-Lara also has treated the border like a revolving door, re-entering illegally over and over again, according to law-enforcement officials.
Now, the federal government is determined to send Samaniego-Lara and other deported criminals like him a strong message: Stay out of the U.S. or risk lengthy prison sentences.
In November, police found Samaniego-Lara, 43, squatting inside a vacant house in west Phoenix. Police booked him into the Maricopa County Jail on a felony criminal-trespassing charge. Jail officials found that in 2004 he had been convicted of illegally re-entering the country following an earlier deportation. The records showed that Samaniego-Lara was sentenced to 15 months in prison and was deported, again, the following June.
In March, a federal jury convicted Samaniego-Lara of a felony charge of illegally re-entering the country. U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Martone sentenced Samaniego-Lara in May to five years and three months in federal prison.

[joazinha]

Cracking down on ILLEGAL immigration PERIOD is also needed!

[kjl]

The problem with lengthy prison sentences is the cost to the taxpayer is huge. What needs to be done and should be done is to require those imprisoned support themselves. Be it hard labor or what other industry will support the cost of imprisonment. We need to do what ever it takes to deter the crimes that create the problems in the first place. Prisons shouldn't be like a hotel and playground with all the amenities. If prisoners need to work out let them do it using that energy to support their upkeep instead of having a weight room. We need to stop coddling them and start punishing them at their own expense.

[saw mill worker]

This justice system is not getting tougher on illegals, my grandson was stabbed by an illegal drug dealer in Carson City two an half years ago, this drug dealer run to Texas from Nevada, where he was apprehended and put in jail for the stabbing of another US citizen, while in Texas he was let out on
bail and went back to Mexico as soon as he got out.
This individual come back into the United States about nine months later
and put himself into a drug rehab center, because he did that this justice system in Texas and Nevada let this man back out on our streets as long as he finished his rehab, tell me where the justice system went wrong folks ???

Now we have a man in charge of the justice system that don't believe American citizens have the right to bear arms, we also have a woman in charge of homeland security, that believes illegals have the same rights as American citizens do.

A great nation cannot stand under such weak forces.

[ilbegone]

The problem with lengthy prison sentences is the cost to the taxpayer is huge. What needs to be done and should be done is to require those imprisoned support themselves. Be it hard labor or what other industry will support the cost of imprisonment. We need to do what ever it takes to deter the crimes that create the problems in the first place. Prisons shouldn't be like a hotel and playground with all the amenities. If prisoners need to work out let them do it using that energy to support their upkeep instead of having a weight room. We need to stop coddling them and start punishing them at their own expense.

I'm not so sure about the line between requiring prisoners to support themselves through labor and utilizing slave labor. Nor do I support charging someone for their stay. Someone's already getting rich off the concession carts and other siphoning off the prisoner's books.

And jail isn't an amenity loaded playground hotel to the average person, although to hardened criminals on the way to being institutionalized it might mean little more than an extended time out. To the institutionalized it's home.

Jail is thoroughly unpleasant. Lots of unneeded bullshit in jail from every angle.

What needs to be done is to give employers the certain choice to either hire within the law or take everything they have AND give them some jail time.

Make an example out of ten employers and you'll whip far more than a thousand into shape.

And it has to be a continuing exercise, it can't be limited to either large or small employers, and it can't allow anyone to hide behind the corporation's legal pose as a person.