Los Angeles authorities say they are cracking down on gang violence by working with federal officials to deport suspected gang members who are illegal immigrants. The partnership with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement marks a departure for local law enforcement, which generally kept federal immigration officials at arm's length. Authorities have long argued that inquiring about immigration would spread fear across immigrant communities and make it difficult for police to investigate crimes, but City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said his office has found illegal immigration to be a much larger issue in the prosecution of gang members. "If we know there are gang members, we should be in the position to discern every law they have broken, including whether they have come here illegally," he told the Los Angeles Times. A census found recently that more than 20 percent of L.A. County Jail inmates and more than 10 percent of Orange County Jail inmates were illegal immigrants, the newspaper reported. Under the new policies, all suspected gang members charged with breaking gang injunctions as well as other offenses such as graffiti vandalism and loitering are being checked for immigration violations, Delgadillo told the newspaper. Those whose criminal records show illegal status are turned over to federal authorities. Three prosecutors from Delgadillo's office also have been assigned to the U.S. attorney's office to help prosecute gang members for immigration violations.
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