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In temporary courtrooms at a fairgrounds here, 270 illegal immigrants were sentenced this week to five months in prison for working at a meatpacking plant with false documents.
The prosecutions, which ended Friday, signal a sharp escalation in the Bush administration’s crackdown on illegal workers, with prosecutors bringing tough federal criminal charges against most of the immigrants arrested in a May 12 raid. Until now, unauthorized workers have generally been detained by immigration officials for civil violations and rapidly deported.
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270 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push
So instead of deporting them, we are going to pay $3,000 a week to house and feed them? Instead of being productive workers paying into our Social Security fund which they will never draw from, we are sending them to a place where they can learn the art of gangsta. Teach them how to act on their anger for having been imprisoned. Force their families to rely even more heavily on social programs to get by while the bread winner is in prison.
Brilliant!