Federal immigration officials are deporting more immigrants in Massachusetts for civil violations than for serious crimes under a fingerprint-sharing program that expanded from Boston to the rest of the state last year.
As of December, only 45.6 percent of the 768 immigrants deported through the Secure Communities program since 2008 had criminal records, far below the national average of 76 percent and lower than states such as Arizona, New York, and Texas.
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Massachusetts leadership under the socialists simply can't do anything right or in a professional manner! Illegal issue is addressed the same way foster care is . In the ongoing trial, Massachusetts was cited with the following:
"Children are abused and neglected while in Massachusetts foster care custody at an alarming rate. Among the 47 jurisdictions reporting maltreatment data in 2008, Massachusetts ranked 4th worst in the rate of abuse and neglect of children in foster care. DCF performance in this vital safety measure deteriorated further in 2009." Conner vs. PatrickNot enough people who are kind, generous and able apply to be foster parents. There is a great need for good foster parents.
Why? You don't make much money, if any, being a foster parent. This is a kind act, not a profitable one.
If people stopped criticizing and complaining and put their own time, energy, love and funds where their mouths were...oh, what a difference that would make.
If those deported are here illegally, then it seems to me that they are criminals, prior record or not.
Sneaking back into the country after being deported is a felony crime. That meets the definition of a crime. Your definitions need updating.
Even though Marsha Coakley believes it's not illegal to be in Massachusetts illegally, the simple fact is that none of these people have a right to be here and should be deported. Could we improve the results by deporting more deadbeats that drain tax resources? Probably. Could we prioritize murders and drunk drivers? Yes. But I really don't see what the controversy is about this program.
Looks like we need a little glossary:
Globe Speak: "Immigrant"
Definitin: "ILLEGAL ALIEN who is taking jobs/benefits/assistance away from LEGAL CITIZENS"
“The whole purpose of Secure Communities was to get these bad guys out of the neighborhoods and protect the people that are being victimized."
As a LEGAL CITIZEN and a TAXPAYER.... I'm the one being victimized by the ILLEGALS. Lets get the bad guys - any and all ILLEGAL ALIENS - out of the neighborhoods and back to wherever they came from
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I'm sick to death with the whining by illegal immigrants. Get out.
I'm sick to the death of whining posts like yours. So there.
Nice comments in the Judeo Christian tradition.
You can sponsor an immigrant you know... very easy to do it legally. Show some funds in the bank to ensure they wont become a ward of the state (ie you pay), get them inspected by a Public Health Officer, couple of other things. Not that hard.
You up for it?
No? Oh, you mean you want ME to pay for it? I think not.
Charity begins at home....and for a liberal, that means some other taxpayers home...
Actually, the rule of law is very much in the Judeo Christian tradition.
“I don’t think that Massachusetts should be using state and local resources, or law enforcement officers, to be enforcing immigration law,” Eldridge said.
Is this guy serious? These legislators make law after useless law when enforcing the one on the books would have solve the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT problem a long time ago.
All of those being deported were arrested...the numbers are intentionally skewed, because rather than trying them for what they are arrested for, they are deporting them first. That allows the advocates to say they have no criminal record...no arrest= no prints...so illegals should not commit further crimes and they won't get caught by this program...
Not familiar with a popular legal concept "Innocent until proven guilty"? Arrests do not = guilt.
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Secure Communities in Massachusetts works pretty well. You get arrested, your prints go to the Feds, if you are illegal you get deported. If you are illegal you are illegal--you have to go. Besides you were just arrested for breaking a Massachusetts Law. What's so outrageous about this. keep the Politicians out of this---Feds should cut off all state and local funding to those states and locals not in the program. This is just one step in the immigration reform requirement, it's called secure borders.
EVERY Illegal is EITHER taking a job needed by a citizen OR living off of the taxes of citizens. Deport.
Waaaaay too simplistic, and not supported by facts.
Please elaborate, redglare2. Where is the flaw in this? Are illegals crashing the cars and doing the drugs that no American will crash or do?
If you are an illegal immigrant, then you broke our law by coming here. If you don't like the way you are treated here, a simple solution, go home. You will not be missed, a lot of us are tired of you and your complaining and all your 'wants'.
We are being sold down the river by members of both parties who are only interested in votes, not what's best for the country. What other laws does Sen. Eldridge want to stop enforcing? Didn't he take an oath to enforce the law? Traitor.
Only 77 illegals deported from Lawrence and Lowell? You could find that many illlegals in Lawence by swinging a dead cat.
I agree that for most politicians how to get re-elected is the overriding concern, often trumping the rule of law and the good of the nation.
Does it really why they got arrested ? The fact that they are here illegally should be reason enough to deport them. They cost this country billions.
We're going to take the bulk of the illegal population and give them a path to citizenship - that much seems decided. The question is how do we not as a country get ourselves into this same situation with a large illegal population again given that we're about to show anyone thinking about just coming here without going through our legal process that, if they can hang on long enough, they're going to be rewarded with U.S. citizenship. I have no faith in Barack Obama's willingness to lead an Administration that would actually deport people quickly given his electoral coalition. On the other hand, I have no real faith that most Republicans would do it either given how many of their funders own businesses that depend on this cheap labor source. Once we legalize this group of cheaters (and that's really what they are - the Globe should send its correspondents to countries with really long waiting lists of people who are going through the legal process to get here like the Philippeans and ask the people who've done what we require and are still waiting for a hearing what they think of this. I bet that would be interesting), what are we going to be willing to do to keep ourselves from getting into the same situation within 15 years ? I think the answer is obvious: nothing.
The S-Comm program has escalated the Obama administration's creation of a generation of U.S. citizens who are deportation orphans. They live in the U.S. with family members or in foster care. They live in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil and Cambodia with their parents. They are frightened, confused, anxious, and they will be scarred for life. Eventually they will grow into adult citizens who will carry the injustice of what was done to them into all their attitudes.
The Obama administration has deported about 1.5 million people. About half of them have children, whose pain and anguish is immeasurable. Their parents came here undocumented because they needed to sustain their families - including aging parents - and that is impossible in their countries of origin. They came undocumented because there is no "line" for them to get into.
I know some of these families. The parents are hard-working, devoted family people. They are upstanding members of their communities and of their churches.
A number of them have re-entered the country after being deported. That does not make them criminals, though they are being persecuted as such. It makes them self-sacrifing mothers and fathers who risk their lives, not to mention their comfort, to rejoin their children and spouses.
The United States has done much, though its trade and foreign policies, to make life impossible for poor people in the countries these families come from. Through today's immigration policies, the same poor people are being violated again. But the current generation of immigration orphans will one day seek the justice being denied them today.
The United States has a right an independent country to make its own immigration policies and enforce its borders. We should take big numbers of immigrants because it is to our advantage and benefit as country to take them as I mostly think is the case but not just because someone wants to come here. As for Free Trade Agreements, nobody forced the other parties to sign them and if the criteria becomes economic need for taking people, say hi to about half of Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia in addition to Central and South America. People from all of those places also deserve a shot to come here. At some point, we'll end up with several billion people and our country will become even more difficult to run than it is already.
I am always stunned at the lack of kindness and compassion by so many resentful posters here. As I always say, they need to walk in the shoes of those who came here out of poverty.
But the comments are so mean spirited! I think that this has to be due to a lot of ignorance, not simple hard heartedness. These posters do not seem to see beneath the sound bytes: "Illegal Immigrant!" "Criminal" and don't know the true story of the lives of many of those who crossed the borders illegally.
This was supposed to be a nation for those who were suffering from social injustice in their home lands. Many legal immigrants do not come from poverty or want. Many come from places where they have enough to eat, good medical care and an education. Yet they come legally and the poorest rarely do. Think about it. Something is very wrong.
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