Goodbye, Dangerous Illegal Immigrants

Serious crimes earn illegal immigrants one-way trips home.

Updated 12:53 PM PST, Thu, Nov 12, 2009

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The numbers are in and more than 80 percent of illegal immigrants arrested for serious crimes in LA are kicked out of the country.

The federal "Secure Communities Initiative" found 8,717 criminal aliens in custody in Los Angeles County since it became operational locally on Aug. 27.

Of those, more than 1,100 had been charged with or convicted of major drug offenses, murder, rape, robbery, and kidnapping, and of those, more than 900 were deported, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Under the program, authorities automatically check the digital fingerprints of individuals arrested and booked at the local level against the Department of Homeland Security's "biometrics-based" immigration records in addition to FBI databases, which allows ICE to take actions designed to ensure that dangerous criminal aliens are not released back into communities, officials said.

Copyright City News Service / NBC Los Angeles

First Published: Nov 12, 2009 12:05 PM PST

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