Here in Suffolk County 10% of the county prison population were illegal immigrants who have committed crimes beyond their first criminal act which was to enter the country illegally. To incarcerate the illegal immigrants was costing the local taxpayers a lot of money. So the Sheriff DeMarco has embarked on a program to have ICE come and pick up the illegal immigrant criminals up as soon as possible. At least these criminals are no longer costing local taxpayers money for their incarceration. Here are some of the money quotes:
"Since we instituted this program, we almost tripled the amount of illegal aliens we turn over to the feds," - Sheriff DeMarco
""These prisoners, who are not even here legally in the first place, are costing us a fortune in taxpayer dollars," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who approved funding for the Criminal Alien Program."
However the real solution would be for the Federal Government from George Bush to our local Congressman Tim Bishop to get off their butts and stop hiding behind the illegal immigrant amnesty bandwagon and really enforce our immigration laws and border security.
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