Illegal immigrants now have the luxury to come forward and schedule their own deportation. A pilot program started on Tuesday aims to give cooperative illegal immigrants an easy way out. There has been a lot of bad talk over the way illegal immigrants are treated during the process of arrest and deportation.

Deportable immigrants released from the Los Angeles County jail system were no more likely to be rearrested than similar nondeportable immigrants released during the same period, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.