Thread: Nearly 1 million immigrants including more than 170K convicts ignoring deportation

Nearly 1 million immigrants — including more than 170K convicts — ignoring deportation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, July 1, 2016

Nearly 1 million immigrants are ignoring deportation orders to remain in the U.S. — including more than 170,000 convicted criminals, according to a new report Thursday that suggests the government’s deportation efforts are still falling short.

Only a small fraction of the immigrants are even being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), meaning most of them remain free on the streets, where they can commit crimes and continue living in the shadows, according to the study by Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies.

“The fact that almost 10 percent of the illegal resident population has already been ordered removed and is still here illustrates just how dysfunctional our immigration enforcement system is. It also should be of great concern that 20 percent of them are conviction criminals, and that most of these are at large in our communities,” Ms. Vaughan said.

She said the 925,193 aliens who were still here despite a deportation order break down into three categories. In some cases their home countries refuse to take them back, and U.S. officials feel constrained by law to release them; other times they are released by sanctuary cities, who help thwart deportations; and still others abscond on their own.

Mexicans account for the most aliens, with nearly 200,000 ignoring deportation orders. About a third of those are convicted criminals, Ms. Vaughan said. El Salvador accounts for more than 150,000 of the aliens, but just 10,000 of them are convicted criminals.

Perhaps most troubling is that the population is steadily growing, with the Obama administration tracking down fewer than 10,000 fugitives a year on the streets. Even when criminals snagged by checking local prisons and jails are included, the number of those deported from the interior of the U.S. is far less than 100,000.
But some 179,040 new criminal aliens were given final orders or removal in 2015 yet remained in the country, Ms. Vaughan said, citing data obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Nearly 1 million immigrants — including more than 170K convicts — ignoring deportation

More than 925,000 'deported' illegal immigrants are still in the U.S. – including 170,000 with criminal records

*Report shows hundreds of thousands of people in the country illegally have been ordered removed, but are still living here
*About 20 percent of the deported-but-not-departed illegal immigrants have at least one criminal conviction; nearly all of them are at large
*About 60 percent of them come from just four countries: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:54 EST, 1 July 2016 | UPDATED: 14:46 EST, 1 July 2016

More than 925,000 illegal immigrants are walking the streets of the United States despite government orders for their deportation, according to a new report.

And more than 170,000 of them have been convicted of crimes in the U.S.

Those numbers indicate that nearly 1 in 10 people living in the U.S. illegally have already been ordered to leave, but are defying federal immigration authorities.


SHOCKING: At the end of 2015 there were more than 172,000 'criminal aliens' at large in the U.S. after deportation orders

The Center for Immigration Studies, a center-right think tank, published the startling statistics on Friday.

The group's policy studies director, Jessica Vaughan, told The Washington Times that only a tiny fraction of the deported-but-not-departed 'aliens' are already in custody.

'The fact that almost 10 percent of the illegal resident population has already been ordered removed and is still here illustrates just how dysfunctional our immigration enforcement system is,' she said.

'It also should be of great concern that 20 percent of them are conviction criminals, and that most of these are at large in our communities.'

In all, the defiant offenders numbered 925,193 at the end of 2015.

Many of them are either people whose home countries refuse to take them back but whom U.S. authorities lack a legal basis to keep locked up.

Others are released from jails in so-called 'sanctuary cities' that refuse to work with federal immigration agents.

A third group simply go on the run.


WHERE THEY'RE FROM: The dark areas on this map represent Mexico and the Central American countries that together represent 60 per cent of the total

Last year, 179,040 new 'final orders of removal' were issued to deport criminal aliens who haven't left.

Vaughan cited data that she said came from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A majority of the total hail from just four countries: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala
Mexico alone accounts for 200,000 of them. Vaughan said one-third of that group are convicts.

By comparison, only about 1 in 15 Salvadorans living in the U.S. after deportation orders have been convicted of crimes while they are here.

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Foreign criminals hard to deport

Sunday July 3, 2016 5:00 AM

Jean Jacques, a 17-year-old Haitian, fled his country in 1992 and was picked up at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard. Granted permission to remain in the United States, he wound up in Connecticut where, in 1996, he was involved in a shooting that led to a 15-year prison term for attempted murder. While he was incarcerated, immigration officials obtained an order for his deportation. Yet when Jacques was released from prison, he wasn’t deported. Instead, he was out on the streets last June in Norwich, Conn., where he stabbed a 25-year-old woman to death in an apparent drug dispute.

That Jacques was never deported sounds like one of those “somebody messed up” stories with tragic consequences. The reality, however, is that Jacques remained in the U.S. not through error or incompetence but through the confluence of domestic laws and international agreements that include a troubling, but hard to close, loophole. It seems that getting a deportation order is only the first step in ejecting someone from the country. The second is finding a country to take the deportee. Usually, of course, that is the person’s homeland. But Jacques arrived in the U.S. without a passport or other documents, and Haiti rejected three requests that it issue travel papers to allow Jacques to return, claiming there was insufficient documentation of his background.

Without a country to send him to, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was forced to free Jacques. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2001 Zadvydas v. Davis decision bars the government from detaining a person for more than six months unless it can show a “significant likelihood” that it will be able to enforce a deportation order in the reasonably foreseeable future.

A recent inspector general’s report found that ICE officials could have tried more avenues to establish Jacques’ Haitian citizenship, but also concluded that further efforts were unlikely to have satisfied the Haitian government. And it found that the agency is too overwhelmed to properly monitor those it has released. The inspector general is continuing to look at whether the Department of Homeland Security has effective policies and procedures in place to deport immigrants who have committed “aggravated felonies.” That’s a sound next step.

The fact is, it’s unfair (and illegal) to keep people behind bars beyond the terms of their sentences, regardless of their citizenship. It’s reasonable to deport individuals who have committed serious crimes, but it’s also inhumane to detain them forever simply because no country will take them.

And this situation is not as uncommon as one might think. Many immigrants living legally in the U.S. lack passports because they were born stateless — Palestinians in refugee camps, for example, or citizens of countries that no longer exist. According to ICE, 8,275 people against whom it had obtained removal orders for criminal convictions were allowed out of detention from 2012 to 2015 because there was no country that would agree to take them.

U.S. immigration law generally denies foreign nationals the right to reside in the country if they’ve been convicted of certain crimes. The government needs to work harder to persuade other nations to accept citizens who are being deported.

— Los Angeles Times

Foreign criminals hard to deport | The Columbus Dispatch

Not hard...load them up on a plane, land the plane...boot them out! Then take off.

Cut off ALL foreign aid to these countries and accept no more of their people.