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| Inmates deported under new partnership |
| By Las Vegas Review-Journal |
| Published: 01/05/2009 |
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NEVADA - Immigration officials deported 28 foreign-born Clark County jail inmates during the first month of a new partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department. The partnership, which officially began Nov. 15, allows specially trained corrections officers at the Clark County Detention Center to identify immigration violators and start deportation proceedings against them. Through mid-December, 882 people booked into the jail were identified as foreign-born and screened for their immigration status. Of those, 114 were identified as being in the United States illegally. Their names were forwarded to the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Twenty-eight either have been removed from the United States or are in holding stations awaiting removal, police said. "Preliminary numbers show it (the partnership) is in compliance with what we wanted it to be: one additional tool to target the criminal element," police spokesman Jacinto Rivera said. But some said the figures released last week by Las Vegas police raise red flags. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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