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Dallas County jailers will now be able to instantly identify prisoners who are in the country illegally.

The Dallas County Jail is one of seven pilot programs nationwide for a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement program. It’s based on fingerprints and adds 90 million federal immigration records to the background database available to jailers. Now, everyone booked into the Dallas County jail will have fingerprints cross checked against the immigration database with immediate response. Dallas ICE Assistant Field Officer Pablo Campos says this will increase deportations.

Campos:  We will forward a detainer to the Dallas County Jail basically within minutes of them receiving the initial information. The benefit is this is automated. It’s much quicker. We have enhanced transportation, detention space etc. in order to accommodate what we think might be a spike with Dallas County. People that have minor offenses, if resources permit, we would also place a detainer on them. So far, the Dallas ICE office has been identifying and picking up every person that comes to our attention.

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Of course, some see the new database as detrimental or even punitive.

State Representative Rafael Anchia says the focus should be on the “criminal” alien, not the misdemeanor offender.

Anchia: If we can focus on the people who are dealing drugs in our community, who are gang banging in our community, we need to get rid of them. We need to get them out of the United States. They need to be deported. But I would hate to see an grandmother driving without insurance be deported because of some administrative penalty and not a crime.

Anchia, of course, does not see the term illegal as a part of the problem of illegal aliens. Until our country secures its own borders from ALL illegal entries, the economic damage will continue and the potential for additional terrorist threats will continue to be on the horizon.

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Fri, 06/06/2008 – 11:57 — Judicial Watch Blog

Illegal Immigrants Get $100 Million In Medical Care Before Getting Deported

U.S. taxpayers have spent $100 million in less than a year on health care for illegal immigrants incarcerated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including costly heart surgeries, chemo therapy, dialysis, appendectomies and medications that many Americans are denied or struggle to afford.

The taxpayer-financed medical services go to the approximately 300,000 illegal immigrants—mostly awaiting deportation—in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security. Costly hospitalizations, dental visits and procedures such as chest x-rays are also a regular part of the detainee health program, which in many ways is superior to that of many legal residents.

Although a national newspaper recently published a lengthy, tear-jerking article on an illegal immigrant who unfortunately died in custody, it failed to mention the overwhelming number of immigrants—many with serious or life-threatening preexisting conditions—who benefit from the topnotch medical care they receive in detention. In most cases, their health problems are the result of receiving no medical care in their native countries.

Besides hundreds of highly trained medical professionals and state-of-the-art equipment, the government also hires psychologists and social workers to manage the daily population of more than 1,350 seriously mentally ill detainees. The overall medical system is responsible for the huge decline in the mortality rate, from 29 in 2004 to seven in 2007.

Yet the mainstream media has over the years accused the government of providing dismal medical care for immigration detainees by focusing on a handful of isolated cases. A recently published congressional investigative report contradicts the assertion that there is a pervasive or persistent pattern of noncompliance across federal detention facilities. In fact, the report points out the significant challenge of providing medical care and treatment to more than 311,000 aliens detained in the government’s 300 facilities.

And these expenses are for the immigrants awaiting deportation, not those who use the taxpayers services before being caught for deportation.

“I have a plan to destroy America”

– by Richard D. Lamm

For the reasons outlined in this piece, those who cherish our nation should scrutinize who they vote for in the primaries and general election.

Sadly, none of the front runners have demonstrated the will to stop the flow of illegal immigration. Without such gumption, the vote for president in November 2008 maybe an exercise in futility.

The US Border Patrol released reluctantly released a report that outlined 29 incidents of Mexican military or police illegally crossing into the US in 2006. After reading the report, it is understandable why the feds did not want this information to see the light of day

While some appear to be unintentional, others appear to be specific incidents of the military collaborating with illegal activities with no regard to international borders.

Mexican Military Humvee armed with a .50 caliber weapon and several soldiers were seen assisting smugglers return to Mexico…

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What country can survive with such disregard to its national sovereignty? What country can survive when legislatures pass mandates for security without funding the process?