Jacksonville Immigration Attorney Blog

Starting on October 18th, 2011, on TV on PBS or online at www.pbs.gov, Frontline will present a special called Lost in Detention. This special will feature footage of life in immigration detention as well as information on the Obama Administration's enforcement based immigration policy.

CNN has reported that over a span of 7 days, ICE has arrested 2,900 immigrants who had criminal convictions. ICE arrested 2,900 people from all over the 50 states. The Obama Administration has consistently upheld its policy against criminal aliens, and this is one example of their policy being placed in action. Of those 2,900 people, more than 1,200 people had multiple convictions. Also, 1,600 of those people had felony convictions ranging from manslaughter to sexual crimes against minors. A few were even gang members or convicted sex offenders.

ICE has estimated that there remain at large over 1 million convicted immigrants in the U.S. Most of the people arrested, about 2,600 of them, were men.

I know from the calls I am receiving in my office that enforcement of criminal aliens is definitely on the rise, because at least 50 percent of the calls I have been receiving lately are calls from family members seeking assistance in getting their loved one out of immigration custody. Many of the detained aliens have had some previous criminal conviction(s) in their past.

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Ericka Bennett with Action News Jacksonville on November 16, 2010 regarding the issue of how much control police have in arresting undocumented individuals. I thank Ericka Bennett for the opportunity.

To read the article, please go to this link:

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/actionlocal/story/JSO-officer-finds-undocumented-aliens/GrIiuTgcXkGyv4OYg_mfWw.cspx