9:15 – 10:45 amGrits was pleased to be asked to participate and after a preparatory conference call yesterday with the other panel members, I think the group has a lot to say on the subject and there are more lessons to be drawn than one might think at first glance from Texas' experience on the criminal justice front to the issues surrounding immigration detention and alternatives to incarceration. I'm looking forward to it.
Alternatives to Detention: Models and Best Practices
Alternatives to detention and community-based release programs have been repeatedly demonstrated to lead to substantial cost savings and high compliance rates in both the immigration detention system and in pre-trial services programs in the criminal justice system. Currently, ICE spends about $2 billion per year on detention, to house almost 400,000 individuals, and $72 million on alternatives for just 23,000. Texas county jails hold about 64,000 individuals daily, almost 60 percent of whom are classified as pre-trial. Particularly at a time when local, state, and federal governments are all facing severe fiscal crises, the immigration detention and corrections systems could be decreasing spending on detention, and reallocating funds to increased investment in effective and rights-respecting alternatives.
What are the elements of a successful alternatives program? What is the definition of success? What is the role of risk assessment tools in an alternatives program? Can bonds be used as assurance in a way that does not disadvantage individuals simply because they do not have money? How can alternatives save taxpayer dollars?
● Ana Yáñez-Correa, Ph.D., Executive Director, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
● Jennifer Long, Executive Director, Casa Marianella
● Carol Oeller, Director, Harris County (TX) Pre-Trial Services
● Representative Jerry Madden (R-67), Chairman, Texas House Corrections Committee
● Oren Root, Director, Center on Immigration and Justice, Vera Institute of Justice
Moderator: Scott Henson, author of the Texas criminal justice blog ‘Grits for Breakfast’
Friday, September 07, 2012
'Applying Lessons From Criminal Justice Reform to the Immigration Detention System"
I wanted to give readers a heads up about an event next Wednesday at UT-Austin"s LBJ School of Public Affairs sponsored by the group Human Rights First, where Grits will be moderating a panel on the subject of alternatives to detention in the immigration system, drawing on lessons from pretrial services program in the criminal justice realm. See the agenda (pdf). The all-day event, with the same title as this post, is open to the public and the whole thing looks quite interesting. Below the jump, see more information on the panel I'll be participating in:
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Here's a money saving idea for you: Just deport them quicker!
2:35, you're utterly clueless. Consider showing up at the event to learn something about the subject, then offer an opinion.
How many of these advocates are like Ana Yanez-Correa--in the country illegally?
Ana's a US citizen, 11:00, just like every other member of the panel I'm moderating.
2:35, you're a dumbass. The Obama Administration is deporting more people than anytime in history and they'd be shipping more out except there aren't enough judges to hear the cases because the GOP won't approve his judicial nominations. What an ignorant comment.
In regard to "The Obama Administration is deporting more people than anytime in history.." I don't know what to think. I will also submit that I have personally seen an incredible number of roadblocks in south Texas manned by the feds and DPS. But, I have also seen more illegals in this state now than at any other time in history. This administration may very well be deporting more numbers of illegals, but statistically speaking, it doesn't seem to be keeping up with the inflow.
Reconquista
It is not our fault that whites don't make babies, and blacks are not growing in sufficient numbers, and there's no other groups with such a goal to put their homeland back together again. We do. Those numbers will make it possible. I believe that in the next few years, we will see an irredentists movement, beyond assimilation, beyond integration, beyond separatism, to putting Mexico back together as one. That's irridentism. One Mexico, one nation
Harvard University professor Samuel P. Huntington stated in 2004 that:
Demographically, socially and culturally, the reconquista of the Southwest United States by Mexico is well under way. No other immigrant group in U.S. history has asserted or could assert a historical claim to U.S. territory. Mexicans and Mexican-Americans can and do make that claim.
In time, we will see who is living in detention centers. The tables will turn. We will then see who is detaining who. Revenge is sweet.
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