Hundreds of undocumented immigrants removed from county jail.
Ana Ceballos
9 hrs ago
Nic Coury
A positive effect of the policy change in the eyes of Undersheriff Michael Moore would be that people who are being removed are people who have prior convictions, and therefore, making the county safer.
It’s been a year since Sheriff Steve Bernal launched a pilot program allowing federal immigration agents inside Monterey County Jail to sift through records and determine if inmates may be eligible for deportation based on their criminal records.
Since August 2015, when the policy change was made quietly and without prior public input, 448 individuals with prior convictions have been removed from the jail and at least one person has been taken by mistake, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman James Schwab. The rate of removing individuals from the jail is 26 times higher than it was before the policy change.
“I think we are good [with the policy],” Undersheriff Michael Moore says. “At this point it is a permanent policy.”
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