GA debates incentives for illegal alien crackdown

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Story Published: Feb 8, 2010 at 2:56 PM EDT

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ATLANTA (AP) - A Cobb County lawmaker is proposing legislation that would provide financial incentives to encourage local law enforcement to use a federal program aimed at identifying illegal aliens arrested in Georgia.

The bill sponsored by Sen. John Wiles would provide a 20 percent bonus from the state to local governments that use a federal program that helps them identify illegal immigrants in custody.

It also would provide a 10 percent bonus for another program that allows arrestee fingerprint information to be checked against FBI criminal history records.

The Kennesaw Republican says people who are in the country illegally are committing crimes in areas that do not have these programs, costing communities money.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Monday, Feb 8 at 6:07 PM Jan wrote ...

Do you want to see murder, rape, assault, theft..go unreported? That's what will happen. You see, you will have a large group of people afraid to go to the police. It's bad enough that people don't like to go to the police as it is...why would we want to add to that.

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Monday, Feb 8 at 5:47 PM Daps wrote ...

and start with the Presidents Aunt...

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Monday, Feb 8 at 5:12 PM Stan wrote ...

The entire US needs to implement 287(g). However, what we really need is to round up and deport all the Illegal Aliens. There are tens of MILLIONS of unemployed US citizens.

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