One more time...should these people be deported?

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Database changed to include deported illegal immigrants


By MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press

HOUSTON — More than 2,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders, whose names were absent from a public statewide database because they were deported, have been restored to the Texas Department of Public Safety public Internet site after a Houston police officer's slaying a month ago.

Andy Kahan, director of the crime victim's office for Houston Mayor Bill White, said today he asked the Texas DPS to review its policy to not include deported offenders in the public database after an illegal immigrant, Juan Leonardo Quintero, was arrested Sept. 26 in the shooting death of Officer Rodney Johnson.

Quintero, 32, now jailed in Johnson's killing, in 1998 was charged with indecency with a child and the next year was given deferred adjudication, a form of probation, in the case. Kahan said when he ran Quintero's name through the DPS public online site, there was no record of him.

"First I thought he was on probation and didn't register and there should be a warrant out for his arrest," Kahan said. "I find out he actually did register and was deported. I was told by DPS officials they remove all sex offenders who are deported from the public database.

"My point was: What's the harm with just listing them as deported? I was stunned."

Kahan wrote Col. Thomas A. Davis, the director of the agency, arguing "there is no downside" in allowing the public to access deported sex offenders' public records.

"The public is our best set of 'eyes' and could possibly alert federal and or local authorities if they spot an offender who has re-entered the country," Kahan wrote.

Davis agreed, responding this week with a note to Kahan that the policy had been changed.

"I give them credit," Kahan said. "At least they obviously saw it should be changed and actually made the change."

The decision puts 2,084 names of deported offenders back on the list that's accessible to the public, DPS spokeswoman Tela Mange said.

The names had been kept off the public list because the deported offenders no longer were considered Texas residents and no longer had an obligation to register in the state, she said.

"Evidently, he came back and obviously didn't register," she said of Quintero.

Another database that law-enforcement officers and agencies can access continued to show the names of the deported offenders, although the names had been purged from the public list.

Convicted sex offenders in Texas have been required since 1991 to register. Refinements to the law in the past decade obligate most of those convicted since 1970 to submit their names, addresses and other personal information to their local law-enforcement agency at least once a year.

The material is published on the Internet site maintained by the Texas DPS and now includes some 46,000 names, triple the number when it first went online in 1999.

"We always ask our citizens to be our eyes and ears out there," Kahan said. "They need to know what they're looking for."

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Answer 1

You live in this city and the answer is yes. They are out of control here in Houston. I want my town back

Answer 2

2 issues: I agree that it relatively is unhappy that our u . s . a . is chasing away a experienced youthful scholar. it is likewise unhappy, although, that training has curiously grow to be so destandardized in Florida that a "6.8 GPA" is a situation. Edit: "greater suitable factors are granted via way of proficient instructions and improve placement instructions." Yeah, i've got seen that, and that would not help the scholars out. college evaluators examine out the situation the comparable way I do: a 4.6 GPA reflects a school this is padding pupils' GPAs one way or yet another, and ability they should examine issues like SATs and ACTs to purpose to get a reasonable assessment of the scholar's ability.

Answer 3

They should be jailed or deported to their country of origin if they will be prosecuted.

For the sake of those one or two morons blaming illegals for all the countries woes again ...

Ugly Americans: sex tourists
Children's advocates fight a growing problem

"Fueled by low-cost travel and easy access to poor and desperate youth, child-sex tourism is escalating, experts say, with more than a million children around the world believed to be sexually exploited every year. .... Offenders cross all nationalities but "Americans are some of the biggest exploiters,"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/17/MN76136.DTL

Americans Commiting Sex Crimes Overseas
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/transcrime/articles/2004/U_S_%20Is%20Pursuing%20Americans%20Who%20Commit%20Sex%20Crimes%20Overseas.htm

Rich people from the US, Europe and other countries have been preying on the young of poor countries for a long time. In addition many young women from Russia, Latin America and other poorer countries are sold in the white slave trade. These are all well documented incidents, even if they aren't often showed on TV to those who don't want to know.

Sex offenders are sex offenders, regardless of race or country of origin. All should be dealt with as firmly as the law allows to keep our children safe. Let's not blanket the truth with yet another myth about illegals causing all these problems as well.

Answer 4

Not only should they deport them, they should keep their names on the Sex Offender Registry. Would they let some American's name be left off if he or she moved to another state? No, I don't think they would.

Answer 5

Abolutely! The influx of illegals has put a crunch on our prison systems all over the nation!!!!

And these are being housed with OUR tax dollars.

Tax dollars that belong to our people.....and could be used for our elderly, our disable and our poor.

Answer 6

ALL sex offenders should be deported to a desert island.This way, they only have each other to molest.

Answer 7

Yes, since that is the worst that can befall them in this enlightened and civilized age of humanism and political correctness.
My solution would be more final, but thats just me.

Answer 8

sex offenders come in all colors, creeds, and nationalities. the fact that you pointed out one article does not mean that all illegals are sex offenders or criminals.

Answer 9

Without delay!

Answer 10

Illegals are illegals and should be sent back to the native country. Jails are not a good idea as it costs money to house.

Peace

Answer 11

There are some 12 MILLION illegal aliens in our country. Let's have our border fence,employer enforcement, city/county/state enforcement, and have done with it. Better immigration policy and enforcement going forward, also...