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| Deporting Foreign-National Inmates |
| By dallasnews.com |
| Published: 03/15/2010 |
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State officials again are considering pursuing deportation for foreign nationals serving time in Texas prisons for nonviolent crime, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The newspaper reported in its Sunday editions that the increase of the population of foreign nationals in Texas prisons and a looming state budget crisis next year is prompting another look at deportation. However, some have raised concerns that deported criminals might be allowed to go free in their home countries. That's prompting some state officials to consider deportation of a percentage of the nonviolent offenders who are foreign nationals. State Sen. Eddie Lucio, a Brownsville Democrat, supports a plan to move many of nearly 11,400 foreign nationals out of Texas state prisons by turning them over to U.S. immigration officials. "It could mean a lot of jobs, economic development, because the federal government will have to find a place to put them before they deport them," he said. Read More. |
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