"Jailed immigrants buoy budgets; US pays sheriffs $90 per day to hold those awaiting deportation" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | February 9, 2009
That's YOUR MONEY, TAXPAYERS!!!
How about PAYING ME $90 DOLLAR/DAY, government?
NORTH DARTMOUTH - .... For each immigrant, they receive an average of $90 a day.
Bristol and other cash-strapped county jails are increasingly embracing the immigration business, capitalizing on the soaring number of foreign-born detainees and the millions of federal dollars a year paid to incarcerate them.
And the POLICE IMPRISONMENT STATE ROLLS ON!!!!
Bristol County alone has raked in $33 million since 2001, and has used the money to transform itself into a sprawling campus with a commissary, an ambulance communications center, and a "management accountability building" for regular meetings on jail operations.
"That money is a tremendous boost for us," said Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald Jr., whose jail houses 324 immigrants, up from 44 a decade ago, bringing in $15.6 million last year. "We aggressively try to market ourselves to get as many of those inmates into our doors as we can."
Meanwhile COPS, TEACHERS, and FIREFIGHTERS are getting LAID OFF!!!!
But advocates for immigrants say the government should dramatically reduce the number of detainees, by releasing them pending deportation. They complain about the burden on taxpayers - this year, the federal government budgeted $1.7 billion nationwide and $42.8 million in New England for detainees - and the risks to immigrants.
Oh, THAT has to be a FIRST!!!
Turns out they just want them release, huh? So they can disappear into society again?
As inhuman as it sounds, unless we get universal health care and all the other social programs WE NEED, then these ILLEGALS should get NOTHING! The GLOBALIST GRAVY TRAIN and DESTRUCTION of the U.S. JOB BASE has to end!
Last year, Hiu Lui Ng, 34, a native of China who overstayed his visa, died of cancer after being detained at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island. A federal inquiry found that jail officials denied his requests for medical care and other services, and that has accelerated calls to release detainees such as Ng who do not have criminal records. In Massachusetts, a majority of detainees are being held for immigration violations, not crimes, and are kept apart from the general jail population.
More on that below. And I'm not for people dying, folks; in fact, I'm for building up their own nations by ceasing U.S. corporate and government meddling in their societies so they can improve themselves (you know, like Venezuela).
"The man who died at Wyatt shouldn't have been in detention at all," said Sara Ignatius, executive director of the Boston-based Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project. "Eighty to 90 dollars a day to lock up somebody who's just overstayed their visa? It just seems like a very inappropriate way to spend federal money."
Of course, the pro-globalist, pro-illegals Globe is going to give you the pro-immigrant perspective.
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Immigration lawyers and federal officials attribute the spike to a variety of circumstances: tougher immigration laws; heightened scrutiny of immigrants after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks; and intensified immigration raids around the country under the Bush administration....
Hey, DON'T YOU IMMIGRANTS blame ME for THOSE FALSE-FLAG, INSIDE JOB ATTACKS that have MADE YOUR LIVES MORE MISERABLE! Join the 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT and SPEAK UP!!!!!!!!!!
The vast majority of immigrant detainees in New England are held at four Massachusetts jails, in Plymouth, Bristol, Suffolk, and Franklin counties. And they are transforming law enforcement in ways those sheriffs never envisioned.
There is no place like home. That explains a lot of what I've been seeing around here lately.
In Franklin County, which houses 75 immigrants a day on average, triple the number 10 years ago, the sheriff just installed equipment so that immigrant detainees can have "video hearings" to save on transportation costs to court. In Plymouth, the sheriff's department often backs up federal immigration agents on sweeps. In Bristol County, officials transport immigrants as far away as Pennsylvania, and drive immigrants daily to immigration court in Boston, where the officers double as court security....
No worry about carbon footprints and environment, huh?
County officials say the additional federal funding also benefits detainees themselves, by allowing them to stay near their families and lawyers instead of being spirited to a detention center in another region.
Yeah, I'm sure the jail time is helping them real good (like that guy below). If that's true, you county guys wouldn't mind a stay while I take over say, your job?
The extra funding, meanwhile, injects cash into communities that are struggling during the economic downturn. By expanding the number of immigrants, Bristol jail managed to build five buildings on the campus and expand services that help the entire county, such as a communications unit that patches ambulance drivers through to hospitals, the sheriff said.
Can't we GET IT and USE IT for SOMETHING ELSE?
Like SCHOOLS and MANUFACTURING PLANTS?
"I could just sit here and be lazy and say that's somebody else's problem," Hodgson said of the decision to house immigrant detainees. "This is an opportunity for us to solve a lot of problems and benefit the people of our community."
By doing what, ripping off the FEDERAL TAXPAYER?
And why isn't the paper hollering racism like they would at my commentary? It's almost as if they endorse this idea. Anything to get the rabble -- legal, illegal, foreign-born, U.S. citizen -- into the jail cells, 'eh, Globe?
One recent day, Sheriff Thomas Hodgson led a Globe reporter on a tour of the cinder block-gray Bristol County campus - perhaps the jail that has been most transformed by immigration in Massachusetts. A cost-conscious Republican, he is not known for coddling inmates - he recently switched all inmates to Tang because it is cheaper than orange juice. He also believes illegal immigrants should be deported, in most cases.
That's what the LAW SAYS -- and aren't we SUPPOSED TO BE a nation of LAWS?
But the son of an English immigrant has also lobbied Congress for reforms and worked with foreign officials to smooth the deportation process. He owns a vacation home in the Azores now because he has made so many consulting trips there.
(Blog author just shakes his head; even your "friend" in the MSM is a profiteering, double-dealing shit)
During the tour, immigrants peppered him with questions, asking him when they can leave or complaining about healthcare, the food, or the stuffy air.
Well, IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT they NO WHERE TO GO!!!
PHONE HOME, ungrateful sh***ers!
In the gymnasium, where immigrants sleep on bunk beds arranged in neat rows on the basketball court, an Iraqi national pointed to his misshapen elbow and said he needed medical care. After they chatted, the sheriff said the man was getting treatment.
Up the road, immigrants in the new $4.2 million immigration building begged the sheriff for information about their cases. But he said their fate is in the hands of federal officials and immigration judges.
And just WHOOOOOO PAID for THAT?
I could use $4 million dollars, couldn't you?
The detainees, who do not have the right to grant interviews without the permission of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, expressed frustration that the reporter was not allowed to interview them....
Oh, boo-hoo-hoo. You never interview me and I'm not crying about it!
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Oh yeah, that dead guy.
PROVIDENCE - A Chinese immigrant being held at a Rhode Island detention center was denied medical care, abused, and accused of faking his illness in the weeks before he died of cancer, according to a federal lawsuit filed yesterday by the man's widow.
Just wondering why the MSM isn't s worried about the guys we have TORTURED and INDEFINITELY IMPRISONED!
And NO ONE would be denied medical care in my world. So stuff the racist charge!
Hiu Lui "Jason" Ng, 34, a computer engineer accused of overstaying his visa, died of liver cancer in August, weeks after being taken to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls. His cancer went undiagnosed until days before he died.
Ng's death prompted a public outcry and state and federal investigations into his detention and treatment. Federal officials determined Ng was mistreated and denied access to medical care. They pulled immigration detainees out of the facility in December before terminating their contract with Wyatt.
Gee, the NEWSPAPERS SURE CAN HAVE an EFFECT when they put their mind to it, 'eh?
"They treated him like he was a piece of furniture. They treated him like an animal," said Jack McConnell, a volunteer for the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Ng's widow, Lin Li Qu.
So he WAS a U.S. citizen? Because that's how OUR GOVERNMENT TREATS US!
The lawsuit alleged guards denied Ng the use of a wheelchair, on one occasion dragging him crying and screaming in pain from his cell to an appointment in Hartford to meet with officials from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. During the return trip, guards threw him on the ground and again dragged him by his arms and legs, breaking his back, according to the lawsuit....
Lesson: stay out of state clutches no matter who you are.
