Two Years Of 287(g)
Posted on April 16, 2009 at 9:04 amThe Davidson County Sheriff has released a report on the result and progress of Nashville’s adoption of a federal program to identify and remove criminal illegal aliens from our city. From the report’s conclusion:
Partnering with the federal government has been the right move for Davidson County:
- 46 percent decline in percentage of illegal aliens committing crimes;
- 31 percent decline in the percentage of foreign born arrested – showing no
indication of profiling by arresting agencies;- 70 gang members removed from Davidson County
- 5,300 illegal aliens set for removal have more than 20,000 current and
previous charges;- 75 percent of vehicular homicides since inception of 287(g) would have been
prevented if misdemeanor offenders were removed previously;- 40 percent have been arrested previously;
Sheriff Daron Hall agrees that more should be done at the federal level such as enforcing the border. Additionally, he believes 287(g) is a public safety tool - not a solution to this country’s illegal immigration problem. Hall also supports recommendations made by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, that the program needs more oversight and consistency across the board. In addition, he believes transparency is a necessary function for a program such as 287(g).
Over the past two years, there have been challenges; however, the DCSO has handled the implementation of 287(g) effectively and professionally and strives to operate a model program.
See the whole report here.
Looking For Racism In 287(g)
Posted on March 5, 2009 at 8:27 amAunt B. thinks the immigration restrictionist federal program is so racist, you don’t even notice it:
It is so bold in its racism that I think people’s first reaction is to try to believe that they are not seeing what they are clearly seeing. They go through all kinds of mental leaps to make sense of it in a way that doesn’t include “I tolerate blatant injustice and evil from my city.”
But as long as Davidson County participates in the 287(g) program, we are tolerating a racist–straight up old school non-academic-definition but real true if you saw it in a movie you’d know the people doing it were the bad guys racist–system.
And if we’re not going to stand up and say, “You know what? Nobody in this county should have the power to make 1% of the city disappear in two years.” then I hope the Feds step in and put a stop to it.
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Juana Villegas DeLaPaz Likely To Be Deported On March 11
Posted on February 25, 2009 at 2:39 pmNate Rau keeps you updated:
The woman who gave birth while in the custody of the Davidson County sheriff’s office is facing deportation next month and is suing the Department of Homeland Security for copies of her immigration records so she can fight the case.
Juana Villegas filed her complaint in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Tennessee on Tuesday seeking access to her immigration records, which she claims are not being turned over to her attorney Elliot Ozment.
Villegas was told by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this month that she would be facing deportation at her next scheduled meeting, which is March 11, according to the court filing.
Uptown Klan
Posted on February 3, 2009 at 10:37 amSheriff Daron Hall writes Metro Council members to tell them he didn’t know what the Council of Conservative Citizens was about when he went to speak to them:
Dear Friends,
Late last week, I received an inquiry about one of the many public speaking engagements I have attended over the last two years regarding the 287(g) immigration enforcement program. It was only at that particular time that I learned of views supported by the group I spoke to in November.
In an ongoing effort to educate the community since the program’s implementation in 2007, I have spoken to more than 100 organizations regarding 287 (g). The request that came from the Middle Tennessee Council of Conservative Citizens was no different. They made a request to my assistant asking me to speak about our program and it was scheduled. I went to Piccadilly cafeteria, explained the program, answered a few questions of this group of 20, and then left. At no time before, during, or after did I have any idea what views this organization supported. Keep in mind, I was speaking about the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office immigration program during this meeting - there was never any discussion of their purpose or mission.
Understand my reputation both professionally and personally as well as the reputation of the DCSO is of the utmost importance and I would never knowingly tarnish that reputation. I have now implemented necessary steps to avoid similar problems in the future. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
I appreciate your support and understanding.
Sincerely,
Daron
Sheriff Daron Hall Spoke To The Council Of Conservative Citizens
Posted on January 30, 2009 at 2:49 pmDude, seriously. Have you not read a news article in the past ten years?
Maybe in 1999 you could have claimed ignorance, not in 2009.
Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall was a featured speaker for a nationalist white hate group that condemns blacks, immigration and is in favor of preserving the country’s “cultural and racial integrity.”
Hall spoke about his department’s controversial 287(g) federal immigration program at a Nov. 22 dinner of the Council of Conservative Citizens held at the Piccadilly Cafeteria on Murfreesboro Pike in Nashville.
The Council of Conservative Citizens opposes “mixing of the races,” homosexuality and nonwhite immigration — legal and illegal, according to its statement of principles on its Web site.The St. Louis-based group stems from the the racist, anti-integrationist White Citizens’ Councils of the 1950s and 1960s, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
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Security Blanket
Posted on September 29, 2008 at 6:10 amTim Chavez uses Nashville’s drop in an index of secure places to live to hit the common sense illegal immigration solution he loves to hate:
Sheriff Daron Hall claimed the 287g program was going to make Nashville a safer place. It was implemented more than a year and a half ago. Instead, the Farmers Insurance report shows Nashville is less safe. And that data matches long-term research of immigrant conduct released earlier this year by Robert J. Sampson, chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.
Is Barack Down With 287(g)?
Posted on July 28, 2008 at 2:50 pmTim Chavez wants someone to ask the candidate if he will shut down a controversial deportation plan by executive order upon his election to the presidency:
Sadly, the one question that needed to be asked was not. Would a President Obama in the first hours of his first day of his first term as president make a phone call or sign an order to stop 287g deportation programs in 57 U.S. communities and two states(N. Carolina and Tennessee) across the country and halt ICE raids of workplaces?
Comprehensive immigration reform will take many months and perhaps another year to pass and enact. Relief from 287g and ICE raids are needed now to stop the inhumanity against heads of households and pregnant mothers such as Juana Villegas (DeLaPaz) in Nashville.
The only certainty in this presidential race is that it will be a referendum on Obama’s fitness to be president. It is his race to lose.
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287(g)
Posted on at 9:56 amNat Rau gives the controversial federal immigration proposal instituted by the Davidson County Sheriff the full treatment in this morning’s City Paper:
If Delgado is the sheriff’s office poster child for how 287(g) prevents dangerous criminals from slipping through the cracks, then the opposition’s counterpart is Juana Villegas DeLaPaz.
Stopped by Berry Hill Office Tim Coleman, a candidate for Metro’s school board, Villegas was arrested instead of being cited on July 3 for driving without a license.
At nine months pregnant, Villegas was found to be an illegal immigrant once she was in custody of the sheriff’s office 287(g) deputies. Villegas gave birth to her fourth child while in custody and was bound to her hospital bed for portions of her stay in the delivery room.
Although the sheriff’s office maintains Villegas was treated appropriately — pointing out the shackles were not restrictive and were removed in the lead-up to and after birth — local advocates are outraged. All told, Villegas was in custody for six days before her release and is now waiting immigration charges.
“The fatal flaw of the sheriff’s program is that any person with a civil immigration violation is treated like a dangerous criminal when they’re not,” Fotopulos said. “To see [sheriff’s office spokeswoman Karl Weikal’s] statements that the way Juana was treated was appropriate… it’s shocking.
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The Previously Deported Juana Villegas DeLaPaz
Posted on July 23, 2008 at 8:37 amNate Rau injects a bit of sanity and reason into the story of Juana Villegas DeLaPaz, the previously deported illegal immigrant who gave birth in the custody of the Davidson County Sheriff after being picked up in accordance with the 287(g) program:
A background check performed by the Sheriff’s Office in accordance with the 287(g) program showed that DeLaPaz was an illegal immigrant who had been deported already in 1996 out of San Diego.
After that DeLaPaz was turned over to ICE custody, and she then went into labor on July 5.
Weickal gave a slightly different account from the Times report of how DeLaPaz was treated by deputies while in labor. Weickal emphasized DeLaPaz was not handcuffed at all during her hospital stay.
Although DeLaPaz was shackled to her hospital bed, Weickal said the restraints did not restrict her movement any more than being bed-ridden would.
“The restraints worked as such that she could roll over and was not limited in her movement while she was in the bed,” Weickal said, adding that DeLaPaz was not restrained two hours before giving birth and six hours afterwards.
The Times’ story said DeLaPaz was away her newborn for “two days” after being released from the hospital. Weickal said DeLaPaz was away from her child for 34 hours.
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Eager To Hit That 287(g) Pinata
Posted on July 11, 2008 at 7:31 amTim Chavez recounts a horrible incident involving police and a Hispanic non-citizen. According to Chavez, Juana Villegas DeLaPaz was pulled over by the Berry Hill Police Department as she left a prenatal clinic. She had a current car registration and a matricular card but no license. She was arrested. The mom gave birth in custody and was taken back to jail.
A terrible story, if true. But do we really have enough information to blame 287(g) for this, as Chavez and others do? Or could we be jumping to conclusions here?
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