8,145 CRIMINAL ALIENS RELEASED DUE TO ‘SANCTUARY CITY’ POLICIES IN 8 MONTHS
REPORT: 8,145 CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS RELEASED DUE TO ‘SANCTUARY CITY’ POLICIES IN 8 MONTH PERIOD
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by CAROLINE MAY 13 Jul 2015 6
Sanctuary policies in jurisdictions across the country have resulted in the release of more than 8,000 criminals Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to deport in an eight-month period in 2014, according to a newly released Center for Immigration Studies report.
The detainer data, obtained by CIS via FIOA request, comes in the wake of the murder of Kathryn Steinle in the sanctuary city of San Francisco, allegedly by a multiple-deportee, multiple-felon illegal immigrant.
CIS’ report, authored by Jessica Vaughan, reveals that 63 percent of the 8,145 released criminal immigrants — in 276 jurisdictions from January 1, 2014, to August 31, 2014 — had “serious prior criminal records” and a fourth had a prior felony charge or conviction.-5,132 were previously convicted or charged with a crime or were labeled a public safety concern. Of these,
-2,984 had a prior felony conviction or charge;
-1,909 had a prior misdemeanor conviction or charge related to violence, assault, sexual abuse, DUI, weapons, or drug distribution or trafficking;and
-239 had three or more other misdemeanor convictions.
According to the report, 1,867 of those release were arrested 4,300 times again— on some 7,491 charges — within that eight-month timeframe. The report notes ICE took custody of 40 percent of the recidivists but as of the time of the report, 60 percent remained at large.
“ICE’s analysis shines a light on the public safety problems created when local sanctuary policies cause the release of criminal aliens that ICE is seeking for deportation,” Vaughan said. “San Francisco’s sanctuary policies do not represent mainstream law-enforcement practice in America, but they are more widespread than is commonly realized.”
Indeed, as of last month the total number of detainers sanctuary jurisdictions did not honor grew to more than 17,000.
According to Vaughan, lawmakers should ensure that complying with federal immigration law is not optional.
“Further, those jurisdictions that do not comply with all detainers should face sanctions and be debarred from certain kinds of federal funding,” she said. “The Davis-Oliver Act, which is not pending in Congress, has provisions to address this problem directly.”
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