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May 17, 2017 11:55 PM

By Brian Maass and Mark Ackerman

DENVER (CBS4) Colorado taxpayers paid more than $522 million to imprison illegal immigrants convicted of crimes over the past 20 years, according to a CBS4 investigation.

The figure, which exceeds a half billion dollars, is drawn from a Colorado Department of Corrections analysis of its State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) applications, a federal grant program designed to offset some costs of incarcerating people in the country illegally. To receive SCAAP funding, state prisons and county jails provide the Department of Justice with a list of names of illegal immigrants and the number of days each served behind bars.

Nora Vera Nolasco (credit: CBS)

One of the names listed on the CDOCs latest SCAAP application was Nora Vera Nolasco, a Mexican national, arrested in 2011 for the Denver hit-and-run crash that killed 21-year-old Jose Medina, a valet car attendant. Four days after the crash, Vera Nolasco was arrested as she sat on a plane in Phoenix, about to take off for her home country.

Jose Medina (credit: CBS)

She had no business in the United States of America, said Medinas mother Linda Limon. People like that they dont belong here at all.

Linda Limon (credit: CBS)

In fiscal year 2015, Vera Nolasco was one of 1,992 illegal immigrants in the Colorado prison system, costing taxpayers $59.7 million, where illegal immigrants made up 7.8 percent of Colorados prison population.

The City of Denver listed 828 names on its 2016 SCAAP report, or 7.6% of its jail population, costing taxpayers $3.9 million. Adams County listed 490 names, or 13.3% of its jail population, costing taxpayers $5.3 (after calculating the cost of incarceration at a higher rate). Weld County listed 311 names, or 8.8% of its jail population, costing taxpayers $2 million. Arapahoe County listed 223 names, or 4.5% of its jail population, costing taxpayers $1.4 million. Jefferson County listed 100 names, or 3.1% of its jail population, costing taxpayers $1 million.

Warsame Karshe (credit: CBS)

Warsame Karshe, an illegal immigrant from Ethiopia, was on Weld Countys SCAAP application. According to police reports Karshe said, You got the wrong guy, Im going to be deported, minutes after Greeley police arrested him for assaulting Robert Dunn, 79, and stealing Dunns car.

Robert Dunn (credit: CBS)

He walloped me alongside the ear and down I went, recalled Dunn of his 2014 run-in with Karshe.

As it turns out, Karshe had been released from jail just two days before he encountered Dunn. Hes now serving six years in the Colorado Department of Corrections, costing taxpayers an estimated $100 per day.

I think America is welcoming and we try to do our best to help people who come over here but we just dont need those kind of people, said Dunn who said he feels victimized again by paying taxes to keep his assailant in prison. Send him back right away, why should I feed the guy for six years?

Through the SCAAP program, the federal government is reimbursing Colorado roughly 4 percent of the cost of incarcerating people like Karshe and Vera Nolasco.

Republican State Sen. Kent Lambert says that leaves a massive burden for Colorado taxpayers.

Colorado State Sen. Kent Lambert (credit: CBS)

When we say immigration is only a federal problem, its not, said Sen. Lambert. We dont want people to forget that a lot of the impacts are also on the states because the federal government is not reimbursing us for the cost of this incarceration.

Donald Trump (credit: CBS)

Jailing illegal immigrants who commit crimes may soon get more expensive. The Trump Administration is proposing doing away altogether with those SCAAP reimbursements, completely shifting the entire cost to state and local taxpayers.

CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass has been with the station more than 30 years uncovering waste, fraud and corruption. Follow him on Twitter @Briancbs4.

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Spokeswoman Emily Tucker with the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), which is based in New York and made up of failed chapters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), told the Wichita Eagle that cities giving out IDs to illegal immigrants must throw out all the data they have on those individuals:

At the local level, about 15 cities have created municipal IDs as a way to make life easier for undocumented immigrants, Tucker said. If youre a citizen, you dont think about what a privilege it is to have an ID or how often you need it.

Documents that cities require to prove identity and residency under the programs include birth certificates, foreign identification documents, passports or utility bills. Under most programs, cities are prohibited from copying or retaining documents. City officials must simply review them and give them back, Tucker said.

New York Citys was one of just a few city programs under which documents were retained. Under a December rule change, the New York program will no longer do so.

As other cities consider creating programs, Tucker suggests that they follow the same practice. And applications should only ask for the information needed to administer the program, Tucker said. ICE cant get data that you dont keep.

CPD also wants U.S. citizens to get on the rolls of these state and city-wide ID cards, saying localities should offer public benefits to anyone wanting an ID in order to incentivize its use. This way, according to Tucker, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will have a much harder time locating illegal immigrants.

Soros has showered CPD with funds recently. In 2016, Soros Open Society Foundation gave CPD a $705,000 in grants to support efforts challenging anti-Muslim sentiment and support advocacy on access to economic opportunity.

Soros is also helping fund illegal immigrants attorneys, specifically in Baltimore, Maryland, putting up $100,000 to aid illegal immigrants in evading deportation, Breitbart Texas reported.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) -- The recent detainment of Cesar Lara Rios, who is accused of living illegally in Harrisonburg, sparked reaction from some in the community, begging for him not to be deported back to Mexico.

His case highlights an increase in the number of illegal immigrant detainments in the United States.

According to the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the amount of suspected illegal immigrant arrests has gone up 37.6 percent compared to this time last year.

On Monday, a group in Harrisonburg wanted answers from a local ICE officer about why their friend and loved one was arrested at his routine check-in last week.

The acting director of ICE offered some answers Wednesday, saying the numbers started climbing after President Trump signed the executive order.

"These stats reflect President Trump's commitment to enforce our immigration laws fairly and across the board," said acting ICE director Tom Homan.

While he believes these orders will help to take some with criminal backgrounds off our streets, even those with a clean records are not protected.

"Those who enter the country illegally [they] violate the law. That is a criminal act," said Homan. When we do encounter others who in the country unlawfully, we will execute our sworn duty and enforce the law."

Homan said this explains the rising number of non-criminal arrests in recent months.

Now, the fate of Lara-Rios is in the hands of the federal government.

"When a federal judge makes a decision and issues an order. That order needs to mean something. Our job at ICE is to execute those federal orders,"

Homan went on to say every suspected illegal immigrant that is arrested does receive the right of due process. Every case is heard by a federal judge before any action is taken.

WHSV reached out to Virginia Organizing about these increases in arrests. The group organized Monday's rally. We have not heard back from them.

For more information about Lara-Rio's case and the growing number of illegal immigrant arrests, see our related links section.

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Edwin Velasquez-Curuchiche, a 40-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala, pleaded guilty to two counts of producing child pornography, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

While Velasquez-Curuchiche was living in a trailer park in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 2015, he preyed on a family living next door, which included a 9-year-old boy, a 6-year-old girl, and an infant. Velasquez-Curuchiche gave the children video games and offered to play with them while their father was away from home.

In September 2015, Velasquez-Curuchiche was able to copy the key of the familys home after he tricked the childrens mother into letting him borrow the key. The mother was unaware that Velasquez-Curuchiche had copied her house key. That same month, Velasquez-Curuchiche broke into the familys home and recorded himself sexually molesting the 6-year-old girl as she slept. A month later, Velasquez-Curuchiche broke in again and recorded more videos of child molestation. Later that year, Velasquez-Curuchiche tried to convince the mother to give her 6-year-old daughter an adult dose of Valium to treat a fever. When the parents refused, Velasquez-Curuchiche tried to pay the 9-year-old boy to administer the dose.

In October 2015, the 6-year-old girl woke up in the middle of the night and went running to her parents bedroom as she was crying. She told her parents that someone had been touching her while she slept. Her parents checked the bedroom, but did not find anyone inside, leading them to believe that the girl was imagining the incident. Later in the month, the family came home and the 6-year-old girl went to her bedroom to grab a toy. Velasquez-Curuchiche was hiding under her bed and proceeded to grab her by the arm, telling her to remain quiet as he tried to convince her with a game on her phone.

The 6-year-old went running out of the room to tell her parents. When her father entered the room and looked, he found Velasquez-Curuchiche hiding in the girls closet and held him there until police came to put the illegal immigrant in handcuffs.

No sentence can ever restore the innocence this illegal alien took from these little children, ICE Special Agent Robert Hammer said in a statement. The fact that he would sneak into their house at night, victimize them, and film the whole thing highlights the danger he posed to the entire community.

Velasquez-Curuchiche entered the U.S. in June 2013 and was subsequently apprehended. The illegal immigrant did not appear for his scheduled immigration court hearing, evading deportation and going on to live in the country undetected for more than three years.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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