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If the sequester is averted

Posted: Feb 27, 2013

will those released illegal immigrant prisoners be rounded up and put back in lockup?;

Should they be? - BillyJoe

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If Republicans were truly about deficit reduction the answer should be No. But with the privatization of prisons, it is a lucrative business for some (see Jan Brewer and her push to make being in the country illegally a jailable offense as opposed to deporting them).

The federal government spends about $2 billion annually on immigration prisons. In fact, the federal government spends more on immigration and border enforcement than on all other federal law enforcement — including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Agency, Marshals, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms — combined. This hugely expensive immigration prison system costs taxpayers an estimated $122 to $164 per detainee per day, or about $44,500 to $60,000 per detainee per year. Effective alternatives to detention (ATD), by contrast, cost from 30 cents to $14 per day while providing adequate supervision for those individuals. The Department of Homeland Security has told Congress that “ATD is a cost-effective alternative to secure detention of aliens in removal proceedings.”

In most cases DHS simply does not need to incarcerate those charged with being deportable to ensure that they appear for their immigration court proceedings. But under current DHS practice, about 34,000 people are incarcerated in immigration prisons every day, often for months or even years, without having the opportunity to go before an immigration judge.

I think so, since the feared sequester - was the reason

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they were freed in the first place. Good luck with that, though.

One of the consequences - 202 Republicans voted for sequester. nm

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By 2014 Obama will have deported more in 6 years - than in all U.S. history before. But

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to your question, gee, I sure hope not. Spending a fortune to lock them back up before they can apply for legal residency under the coming new immigration reform laws would be both really dumb and unnecessarily vicious. People who need a vicious fix can always join bilefests on the web; sadly, there's never a shortage of that sort.

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