On Jul 5, 4:34 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
> Associated Press
>   3:20 PM CDT, July 5, 2008
>
> DES MOINES, Iowa - Both critics and supporters of the Immigration raid
> in Postville are surprised that 304 immigrants are serving jail time
> instead of being deported immediately.
>
> Federal Immigration officials raided Agriprocessors, the nation's
> largest kosher meatpacking plant, on May 12. Most of those arrested were
> sentenced to spend five months in jail before being sent home. Some
> interviewed in jail said they hope to be sent home sooner than that.
>
> Lawyers on both sides said that's unlikely to happen.
>
> Jesus Reyes spoke last month at the Linn County Jail, where he was held
> until flooding forced the transfer of prisoners from the Cedar Rapids
> facility. Reyes, a native of Guatemala, pleaded guilty to using a false
> Social Security number to get work at the Agriprocessors packing plant.
>
> He is concerned about his eight children, wife and mother back in
> Guatemala. They counted on the $200 per month he wired home during his
> three years in Iowa.
>
> "Why don't they send me back? I just want to go back," Reyes said in
> Spanish.
>
> Federal prosecutors won't say why they decided to push for jail time in
> most of the Postville cases. But those on both sides of the Immigration
> issue say the decision marks a significant change.
>
> "It's unheard of for that many people to be prosecuted out of one raid,"
> said Natalie Wettstein, legal director for the American Immigration Law
> Foundation, which works with immigrant-defense lawyers.
>
> Wettstein questioned why the federal government is spending millions of
> tax dollars to imprison nonviolent immigrants. Jail administrators say
> the cost is about $65 per day per inmate, which adds up to $19,700 a day
> and $590,000 a month.
>
> "Is this really commensurate with what these people were doing wrong?"
> Wettstein said. "Does the public really want to spend this kind of
> resources on this?"
>
> Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration
> Reform, say the answer is yes.
>
> "From our perspective, it's a positive shift, because it shows there
> will be consequences," Mehlman said.
>
> The Federation for American Immigration Reform wants tougher enforcement
> of Immigration laws. Mehlman said he hopes word of the jail sentences
> spreads in Guatemala and other countries that are sources of illegal
> Immigration.
>
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ia-postvil
le-raid,0,1863860...

Illegals should be placed in hard labor camps doing hwy. cleanup ect.
After six
months ship them back in unairconditioned cattle trucks.

bill