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U.S. Marshals Overwhelmed with New Immigration Assignment — Escaped Prisoners and Sex Offenders Benefit

By immigrationprof

From Dan Kowalski and the Just News Blog:

“Two months after the Bush administration expanded a program to haul undocumented residents off to jail instead of shipping them home, the U.S. Marshals Service is overwhelmed. The 600 marshals stationed on the border with Mexico are dealing with as many as 6,000 new defendants a month. That’s taking them away from other tasks such as capturing escaped prisoners and rounding up sex offenders, according to Justice Department documents obtained by Bloomberg News.”

Click the link above to this story and a link to the Bloomberg News story.

KJ