More illegal immigrants pegged in jail

Carolyn Hileman* | November 5, 2007

Federal agents are finding illegal immigrants in Ventura County’s jails and identifying them for deportation twice as often as they did a year ago, and the pace could pick up even more when local officers join them next year. Around 26 percent of the 1,700 or so inmates in Ventura County’s jails are foreign-born, said Kathy Kemp, the Sheriff’s Department chief deputy for detention services. There’s no official count of how many are illegal immigrants, but when federal immigration authorities investigate the inmates’ immigration status, they find that about 80 percent of the immigrants — 20 percent of the total jail population — are “removable.” That means they’re either illegal immigrants, or legal immigrants who have committed certain crimes that warrant deportation.

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