Los Angeles Deportation cases soaring

“The number of Los Angeles County jail inmates identified as suspected illegal immigrants nearly doubled in the past year, according to a report in today’s Los Angeles Times. The sharp increase in potential deportees- from 3,050 in 2005 to 5,829 last year, is believed to be the result of more screening, rather than an increase in the number of illegal immigrants in the jails. “The benefit is these people who are committing crimes aren’t being released onto our streets to commit more crimes. They are being removed from the United States,” said Jim Hayes, director of the Los Angeles field office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.