Lawsuit: End local immigration enforcement

A lawsuit filed this month in federal court on behalf of three Cobb County residents seeks to end a controversial program that grants certain immigration powers to local law enforcement officers. However, immigration law experts say the lawsuit has little chance of succeeding. The lawsuit claims that the program, known as 287(g), is unconstitutional because it denied Corina Garcia Albarran, Luis Magana and Maria Lourdes Segobiano-De Soto their right to due process. Albarran and Segobiano are both Mexican natives living in Cobb County. Both were flagged as illegal immigrants after being booked into the Cobb County jail, Albarran on a shoplifting charge and Segobiano on a charge of driving without a license. Neither of the women have been convicted and their criminal cases are still pending. However, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has initiated removal proceedings against them.

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Man accused of killing man with baseball bat still on the loose

Marietta police are looking for a man accused of beating a 27-year-old man to death with a baseball bat during a robbery. Marietta Police Department Jose Marcelino Badillo-Pacheco is accused of beating a man to death with a baseball bat during a robbery last month, Marietta police said. Cobb County Sheriff's Office Jesus Hernandez-Perez was charged with murder in the beating death of a 27-year-old Marietta man last month. He is being held without bond. Boydrick Powell was killed during a robbery inside his Franklin Road apartment sometime between midnight and 4 a.m. Sept. 18, said Officer Jennifer Murphy with Marietta police. Within a few hours, arrest warrants were issued for Jesus Hernandez-Perez, 28, and Jose Marcelino Badillo-Pacheco, 21, both of Marietta, Murphy said. Hernandez-Perez was arrested two days later and booked into the Cobb County jail, where he is being held without bond and on an immigration hold. But Badillo-Pacheco, aka “Gordo,” remains on the loose, Murphy said. Badillo-Pacheco is in the country illegally and could be a flight risk, according to police.

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Growing illegal immigration backlog in court

Immigrants suspected of being in the United States illegally are being held in a detention center in southwest Georgia for months at taxpayer expense, and others remain free on bond for years here amid a severe backlog in the nation’s immigration courts, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. Enlarge photo Adrian Sotres, 22, shows his "HECHO EN MEXICO" (Made in Mexico) tattoo to a visitor. Adrian's mother illegally brought him over the Mexican border into the U.S. when he was an infant. She married a U.S. citizen, who adopted Adrian in 2001. Adrian said the attorney who handled his adoption incorrectly told them Adrian became a U.S. citizen when he was adopted. The attorney denies that. Sotres was arrested in Cobb County in September 2009 and put into deportation proceedings. But the hearing date for his deportation case won't come up until a year from now, on Sept. 12, 2011. Now he is stuck in a stressful legal limbo. Bita Honarvar, [email protected] Adrian Sotres, 22, shows his "HECHO EN MEXICO" (Made in Mexico) tattoo to a visitor. Adrian's mother illegally brought him over the Mexican border into the U.S. when he was an infant. She married a U.S. citizen, who adopted Adrian in 2001. Adrian said the attorney who handled his adoption incorrectly told them Adrian became a U.S. citizen when he was adopted. The attorney denies that. Sotres was arrested in Cobb County in September 2009 and put into deportation proceedings. But the hearing date for his deportation case won't come up until a year from now, on Sept. 12, 2011. Now he is stuck in a stressful legal limbo. More Critics say the court delays are unfair both to citizens and, in some cases, to immigrants. Some believe the backlogs allow illegal immigrants to compete with U.S. citizens for jobs and use taxpayer-funded services while they are free on bond. U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Marietta Republican and critic of the Obama administration’s handling of immigration, described the situation as “unconscionable.” “Those who are able to post bond are out there, still taking jobs away from our citizens and permanent legal residents,” Gingrey said. “And it is even more unconscionable that people who are poor and downtrodden and don’t have the ability to post bond languish in our jails‚ at taxpayer expense, waiting for the federal government to do (its) job.”

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Looks like Cobb county ga is in a little trouble just live Az. I applaud the sheriff department for upholding the illegal immigration laws to help protect legal citizens of Cobb county. IMHO a lot of other county's need to step up and do the same.

Well so much for that thought
Communities Left Out of Immigration Program

ATLANTA (AP) Several Georgia communities have been rejected from participating in a federal program aimed at helping local authorities remove illegal immigrants who are dangerous from their communities. Critics say the program could encourage racial profiling. The Forsyth County Sheriff's office confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the agency was among those rejected. The taxpayer-funded program allows local officials to investigate immigration status of people arrested and jailed for other crimes. Cherokee County Sheriff Roger Garrison told the newspaper that he applied for the money in 2008 and had not yet received an answer. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the county's request is still under consideration.

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So let me get this strait the local law want a part in immigration but were rejected from a Fed. program to do it.
Criminals protecting criminals.