Officials say Criminal Aliens Exempt from Three Strikes Law: Video News Blog

    /24-7PressRelease/ - LOS ANGELES, CA. February 21, 2006 - In seven-minute video news blog the Full Disclosure Network presents L. A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley, Supervisor Michael Antonovich and Sheriff Leroy Baca describing how criminal aliens are not prosecuted under California's Three Strikes Law. This shocking and revealing video can be viewed on the URL: http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/VideoBlog22.php free, "On Demand" 24/7 as a public service. Viewers are asked to participate in an Interactive survey and to vote on possible solutions to the criminal alien problem.

When criminal aliens have been convicted of a crime in California, they serve their time in prison and then are deported out of the country. But according to law enforcement and elected officials, many if not most, of them come back to California six to ten times, each time they return, they are committing a felony, but are not prosecuted under the Three Strikes Law or by the Federal Government.

District Attorney Steve Cooley told Full Disclosure Network host Leslie Dutton, "Our Three Strikes Law does not take into consideration a person's (illegal) status." Sheriff Baca tells Dutton in the video blog that the Three Strikes Law applies to serious felonies such as assault, murder, or robbery.

When asked why criminal aliens were not subject to the Three Strikes Law, Supervisor Michael Antonovich described the process as "it's kind of like 'Kings X sometimes'.

In this video news blog Sheriff Baca states that there are 40,000 illegal criminals in California State prisons right now and that criminal aliens occupy 23 percent of all the L. A. County jails. Without mentioning the failure to prosecute the repeated felonies by these criminal aliens, he went on to say the federal government should be paying for cost and care of these criminals in our jails. Baca said that right now it is costing taxpayers $170 million dollars a year for the criminal aliens and the Federal goverment is only reimbursing $13 or $14 million dollars.

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