{"id":692897,"date":"2010-03-16T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310faaa5ed970c"},"modified":"2010-03-16T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T20:12:06","slug":"o-c-jails-begin-checking-immigration-status-of-all-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692897","title":{"rendered":"O.C. jails begin checking immigration status of all inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a5487c77970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lanow.ocjail\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a5487c77970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a5487c77970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 8px; width: 350px; height: 225px;\" title=\"Lanow.ocjail\"><\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\nAll inmates booked into Orange County jails will have their immigration status checked through fingerprint identification starting Tuesday, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Orange County\u00a0joins 11 other California counties &#8212; including Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura &#8212; that started the process of\u00a0checking the status of all inmates as part of a national program to identify and deport undocumented immigrants who land in jail. <\/p>\n<p>Under the Secure Communities initiative, which was developed by the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, inmates\u2019 fingerprints will be compared against a database that will simultaneously check FBI criminal history and immigration records maintained by DHS, authorities said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Previously, specially-trained deputies screened inmates upon arrival in jail. Those who were foreign born were checked further for immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens is also negotiating with DHS to house hundreds of immigration detainees in county jails to help supplement a massive budget shortfall. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Paloma Esquivel <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Orange County jail cell. L.A. Times file<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All inmates booked into Orange County jails will have their immigration status checked through fingerprint identification starting Tuesday, authorities said. Orange County\u00a0joins 11 other California counties &#8212; including Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura &#8212; that started the process of\u00a0checking the status of all inmates as part of a national program to identify and deport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UfL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}