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Enforcement Gone Bad

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial- NY Times Enforcement Gone Bad Published: February 21, 2009 The failures of the immigration system are many and severe, but the main problem is not that the country is catching too few undocumented immigrants. It is catching too many. Since the early 1990s, you could write the federal government?s immigration strategy on a cardboard sign: Deport Them All. A report last week from the Pew Hispanic Center laid bare some striking results of that campaign. It found that Latinos now make up 40 percent of those sentenced in federal courts, even though they are only about 13 percent of the adult population. They accounted for one-third of federal prison inmates in 2007. The numbers might suggest we are besieged by immigrant criminals. But of all the noncitizen Latinos sentenced last year, the vast majority ? 81 percent ? were convicted for unlawfully entering or remaining in the country, neither of which is a criminal offense...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 22, 2009 (boomark / email).