Posts Tagged ‘immigration’
Orange County Jails To Check Immigration Status of Inmates
Written by Robin Sandoval on March 19, 2010 – 9:08 am -As of this Tuesday, all inmates who are now booked into Orange County jails will have their immigration status checked via fingerprint identification. Prior to this, the inmates were screened by specially trained deputies upon arrival and those who were found to be foreign born had their immigration status checked even further.
Orange County jail officials will join 11 other California county jails such as Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura which have already implemented procedures for checking the identification of inmates using a federal database to identify immigrants who land in their jails.
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Swine Flu Quarantine At San Diego Jail
Written by Robin Sandoval on July 18, 2009 – 6:19 am -Makes For Longer Jail Time…
To halt the potential spread of Swine Flu at an Otay Mesa Jail in San Diego, immigrant inmates are being quarantined. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials report that while these inmates wait for their day in court, two more cases of the Swine Flu were confirmed. Those two cases have since recovered and have been returned to the general population.
The quarantine is for observation. Those scheduled for an upcoming court hearing have to wait. “Detainees under quarantine are removed from the active calendar,” states Elaine Komis, spokeswoman for the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
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