Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Will part of Nygren Palace go dark?

The Associated Press reports that an immigration detention center is being considered for Crete, Ill., which is located approximately 35 miles due south of the Chicago Loop. What's the plan? Seven hundred "beds" in a new facility, to be built and managed by a private company.

The natives are already restless in Crete and have begun opposing it. "NIMBY" is alive and well there. Where were the activists when the pitch was made in McHenry County to enlarge the jail here for a detention facility?

If ICE moves the 300-400 detainees out of McHenry County, where will Sheriff Nygren get the $90/day to keep the lights on? How many corrections officers will be "downsized"?

The stupidity of ICE can be illustrated easily when it houses a detainee at $90/day for seven months ($19,000), because he cannot raise $5,000 for his bond. I have in mind a detainee from Nigeria who satisfied the criminal charges against him by successfully completing a boot camp in Cook County. Upon his release there last June, ICE was waiting for him and brought him to McHenry County. Ka-ching, ka-ching... Every day, day after day, $90 + $90 + $90...

Why not use electronic monitoring at $15.00/day for these types of immigration violators.

The AP article also said that about 400,000 persons are being deported a year. Oh, really?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Electronic monitoring isn't a feasible option. If they violate their confines, who is going to come after them? ICE? They would have the ankle bracelets off and disappear to another city or state in half an hour.

Gus said...

Yep, maybe even flee the USA. Problem solved!

If they remove the monitor, then deport them in five minutes after the next time they are picked up.

Steve said...

Regarding your obvious slant to this, i.e. tweaking the sheriff for having a revenue generating arm to his department...

If you check back and review everything that was published about the jail expansion prior to it coming about, you'll find that they (ICE) entered into a ten year agreement for that space. They can keep it full, half full or empty but they will pay for it.

That was the big laugh when the dolts on the county board were debating whether to enter into the deal. Their question? "Well, gee, we get this space cheap, they rent it from us for ten years and then what happens if they walk away? What will we do with all that space?"

How about using it for the increased prisoner population sure to follow on the heels of the county's growth?

They're as dumb as you.