April 30, 2008

Viva 287 g! Enforcement works in Hall County Georgia – immigration lawyers losing potential business

Posted by D.A. King at 11:08 am - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

“…once they touch the jail, a hold will be placed on them, and their life in this community is over.”

Gainesville Times

Lawyers want Hall sheriff to use discretion with illegal immigration program

Cronic: Don’t break the law and you won’t face deportation

By Stephen Gurr
sgurr@gainesvilletimes.com

Bortolo Ruiz was fishing with four other Mexican day laborers at Wahoo Creek April 5 when a state Department of Natural Resources Ranger asked the men for their fishing licenses.

When they could provide neither a fishing license nor valid identification, DNR Cpl. Adam Loudermilk arrested the men and took them to the Hall County jail, where it was soon determined they were in the United States illegally. Under a new local-federal initiative known as 287(g), jailers processed the men to be turned over to immigration officials for deportation proceedings.

Within two weeks of their arrest, after pleading no contest in state court to misdemeanor fishing without a license and receiving a suspended sentence of the four days they already served in jail, Ruiz, 29, and his fellow fishermen were picked up by officials with Immigration and Customs and Enforcement, on a fast track for the immigration courts and, very likely, a trip back to Mexico.

Read the rest here and remember – the illegal aliens had to break several laws to become illegal aliens.

BONUS! Don’t miss the 2 minute video of lawyer Coroso explaining to us how illegal aliens are “different”. HERE