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Juarez Mayor: Release immigrant criminals to their homes, not at the border

The Juarez Mayor says US deportation policies are making it harder to rein in violent drug cartels in that violence-plagued city. At a high-level border security conference in El Paso, according to the EP Times:Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Tuesday that dumping thousands of U.S.-jailed criminals from Mexico in his violence-torn city worsens an already bad situation.He said the U.S. government empties its jails and deports 7,000 criminals each year to Juárez. "They need to be sent to Mexico City and distributed back to their communities," Ferriz said Tuesday at the Border Security Conference at the University of Texas at El Paso.I'm all for deporting immigrant felons, but for the sake of Juarez (and its sister city El Paso), it makes a lot of sense to pony up for the 2 hour flight to Mexico City when deporting criminals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).