Feds Only Deport Half of Illegal Aliens Arrested for Crimes in America!
Date: Wednesday, October 28 @ 10:47:41 EDT
Topic: illegal immigration alien arrests
US Govt Not Deporting Half Of Illegal Alien Criminals
2009 October 28 Wednesday
by By Randall Parker
Parapundit(dot)com
A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies highlights the
effectiveness of a federal policy to allow local law enforcement
officials to do immigration law enforcement. Section 287(g) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1995 enables police to detain
illegal aliens. But a shortage of federal resources allows many
criminals to escape deportation.
287(g) provides a significant boost to ICE’s ability to identify
and remove aliens who have committed crimes. In 2008, the number of
287(g) arrests (45,368) was equal to one-fifth of all criminal aliens
identified by ICE in prisons and jails nationwide (221,085).
287(g) is cost-effective and much less expensive
than other criminal alien identification programs such as Secure
Communities and Fugitive Operations. For example, in 2008 ICE spent
$219 million to remove 34,000 fugitive aliens (who are mostly
criminals). In 2008, ICE was given $40 million for 287(g), which
produced more than 45,000 arrests of aliens who were involved in state
and local crimes.
The biggest obstacle to improving and expanding 287(g) is the lack of
funding for bed space to detain illegal aliens who have committed
crimes who are discovered by local agencies. Currently ICE is removing
fewer than half of the criminal aliens identified under 287(g).
Deportation of illegal aliens who commit crimes (aside from entering
and staying illegally) is great for citizens because the criminals are,
well, criminals. They prey on non-criminals. When police are able to
identify criminals as illegal aliens the US government should make the
necessary effort to deport every last one of them. That the US
government can't even get it together enough to deport all the criminal
aliens is pathetic.
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