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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Many illegal immigrants ‘crowding’ county jail are not from Butler County
In a recent Cincinnati Enquirer article, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones made a comment he has repeated frequently:
“We deport anywhere from 30 to 50 people a week here in Butler County,” he said.
His argument has long been that he became so involved in the issue of illegal immigration because illegal immigrants were filling up his jail.
It’s worth noting that, according to sheriff’s office statistics, most of the illegal immigrants in the county jail are prisoners arrested in other parts of the country whose stay is paid for by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In 2009, there were 2,823 inmates in the county jail put there and paid for by ICE, according to county records.
That same year, there were 68 foreign-born inmates not arrested or brought in by ICE.
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