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.
CCC Has No Final Solution
Posted on February 5, 2009 at 3:59 pmP.J. Tobia talks to the leader of the controversial group that has made a bit of news in Nashville recently:
Baum then gives the example of his home county of St. Charles, Missouri. He says that the population of his county and the neighboring St. Louis County are about the same. The difference is that his county has hardly any blacks (the county is “ninety-seven percent white and the rest are Hispanic or Orientals”) and zero murders per year compared with a nearly all black St. Louis with a “murder every other day.”
“What’s the difference between St. Louis and St. Charles County?” Baum asks. “It’s the race.”
“Ok,” I reply. “But maybe isn’t another difference that one county is rich and the other poor? Couldn’t that be a reason for the crime?”
“I’m not a sociologist,” he says. “…We don’t have a solution. We don’t have a final solution to this problem.”
Thank God for that.
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
The Tortoise Calling The Slug A Slowpoke
Posted on February 1, 2009 at 11:40 pmMike Byrd cautions local media about chastising Sheriff Daron Hall for not using the Google before meeting with the Council of Conservative Citizens when it took them two months, a blog post from the Southern Poverty Law Center, and a day to find out that one of the chief law enforcement officers in the County spoke before the modern incarnation of the Citizens Councils of the 50s and 60s.
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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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287(g) In The Wrong ‘Hood
Posted on July 30, 2008 at 8:31 amKen Whitehouse points out an interesting conundrum for those hoping for a immigration restrictionist candidate for Congress if Jim Cooper joins a future Obama administration. Sheriff Daron Hall, it would seem, lives in Marsha Blackburn’s Davidson County sliver:
The Davidson County sheriff is a popular guy who has won broad support and admiration for how he has run his office. The problem is that he lives on Holt Road, which barely puts him in Congressman Marsha Blackburn’s district. That could be quickly remedied by a move, so if you see a for-sale sign in his yard, please let us know.
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