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U.S. to Expand Immigration Checks to All Local Jails Obama Administration's Enforcement Push Could Lead to Sharp Increase in Deportation Cases

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U.S. to Expand Immigration Checks to All Local Jails Obama Administration's Enforcement Push Could Lead to Sharp Increase in Deportation Cases By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 19, 2009 The Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by President George W. Bush aimed at checking the immigration status of virtually every person booked into local jails. In four years, the measure could result in a tenfold increase in illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes and identified for deportation, current and former U.S. officials said. By matching inmates' fingerprints to federal immigration databases, authorities hope to pinpoint deportable illegal immigrants before they are released from custody. Inmates in federal and state prisons already are screened...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).