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Arizona crime statistics finger immigrants

Thousands of acts traced to foreigners, US data indicate

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Posted: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:15 am By KATIE CAMPBELL Staff Writer

FLORENCE — Limited data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reveal 271 criminal illegal immigrants have been freed in Arizona since 2013, and that total does not include those yet to be released in the second half of this year.

While that number represents little more than half of an estimated 500 criminal immigrants released in Pinal County in February 2013 alone, those accounted for in a recent Freedom of Information Act request are reportedly responsible for 2,533 separate criminal charges, less than 150 of which were eventually dropped or dismissed.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who whistleblowers previously told about the alleged 500 released in 2013 alone, said he does not believe the number now revealed by ICE, which denied releasing anyone when Babeu made inquires for himself.

“Any information that they give is only to protect them,” he said. “This is absolute corruption. … These are deliberate lies.

“The fact that they (ICE) have now begrudgingly admitted to these numbers is telling and troubling.”

Following an interview with Babeu in June and a Boston Globe investigation revealing thousands of criminal immigrants released by ICE across the country, the Dispatch submitted a FOIA request for “the full names, specific crimes, dates of the crimes committed and dates of release for all convicted criminals released in Arizona by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as a result of the 2001 Supreme Court decision in Zadvydas v. Davis, limiting the amount of time officials can jail immigrants who cannot be deported.”

The caveat of the detainees’ release coming as a result of the Zadvydas decision was included because of a potential challenge by ICE, as detailed in a timeline of the Globe’s investigation. Therefore, the Dispatch was given information only for detainees released because of that Supreme Court decision; those released for other reasons may never be known.

All information requested in the FOIA was provided with the exception of the full name of each criminal; instead, each was assigned a unique identification number.

In a letter to the Dispatch accompanying a CD with the data, ICE FOIA Officer Catrina M. Pavlik-Keenan cited two FOIA exemptions in defense of not releasing the criminals’ names.

According to those exemptions, “The privacy interests of the individuals in the records you have requested outweigh any minimal public interest in disclosure of the information.”

Babeu found this reasoning “completely unacceptable.”

“They’re submitting to us that these dangerous criminals committed nine crimes on average, and their privacy outweighs the public’s interest and safety?” he said. “If you asked for any criminal in our county jail, or in any state prison in Arizona, you will get that information. … They (the criminal immigrants) are not even citizens of this country.”

Without the names of detainees released in Arizona, the Dispatch will be unable to track the recidivism rate of such criminals. The Globe was able to do so after appealing for the release of the names and found as many as 30 percent of criminal immigrants released in the New England region committed new offenses after they were freed. The news organization, armed with names to plug into court record databases, found those new offenses included rape, attempted murder and child molestation.

Babeu said, by denying names to the Dispatch and to him, ICE is merely attempting to prevent anyone from tracing these new crimes by released offenders.

Of the more than 2,500 charges brought against the criminals detailed in the ICE data, about 20 percent were violent or personal crimes — those categories include crimes like murder, various forms of assault and robbery. Drug crimes were even more prevalent, accounting for an additional 22 percent of the total. Minor offenses were plentiful as well, though were often included among more severe charges; for example, 127 traffic offenses were noted.

The Dispatch will appeal ICE’s decision not to release the names of those freed in Arizona, referred to in the data as the Phoenix Area of Responsibility. The Globe’s own success on this matter came only after it sued the federal government, a case it won in 2013.

“It’s painfully apparent that this information has been concealed from the public and from us in law enforcement who are charged with protecting the families in our state,” Babeu told the Dispatch in June.

“People are getting murdered. People are getting raped. People are getting robbed. People are getting killed in drunk-driving wrecks. Yet there’s no accountability, and if we say something against it, all of a sudden, we become the heartless, cold American who is not being open to the concerns of people who have a difficult time from another country.”

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Not to mention the monumental amount of trash and garbage they leave in the deserts, destroying them, and the costs to clean up their trash!

BUILD THE WALL!!

Originally Posted by Beezer

Not to mention the monumental amount of trash and garbage they leave in the deserts, destroying them, and the costs to clean up their trash!

BUILD THE WALL!!

garbage left by people crossing the Rio Grande...where is Al Gore and the Green people? No respect! Already Trashing America! They cannot even begin to clean this up because it is TOO dangerous, they are being shot at.

10 illegal alien facts - WOW!

Not surprised but the figures are outstanding. You can count on the California figures becoming nationwide if clinton is elected. Who will pay for all this? Redistribution of wealth is the globalist agenda.

Americans must unite and rally to elect Donald J Trump President of the United States. He can and will stop this border and illegal immigration disaster, he can and will fix our bad trade deals, he can and will fix our infrastructure and redevelop our inner city ghettos, and do so many other good things for our country including keeping US out of stupid foreign wars and unfair relationships that suck US dry and give US nothing in return.

Thanks for the picture European Knight. Just Arizona alone...the taxpayers spend MILLIONS to clean up the refuse from these rats. They can't keep up with it.

Build the damn wall...they cost us ONE TRILLION a year across the board! Send them back, and turn them right back around. Give them a garbage bag to pick up their filth and take it back with them.

They have NO respect for our laws, our land, our citizens, our neighborhoods or our Country.