Un-deportable, criminal illegal aliens released to the streetsNearly 2,000 let go since 2008

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Updated: Friday, 18 Mar 2011, 6:42 AM EDT
Published : Thursday, 17 Mar 2011, 10:51 PM EDT

(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The release of an illegal immigrant who pleaded guilty in the killing of a Revere teenager is getting national attention and leading to a call for Congressional hearings.

The response to the case exposed by FOX Undercover comes as the federal government released new data showing the how many other immigrants were released from detention because they couldn’t be deported within time standards.

That was the case with Loeun Heng , an illegal immigrant from Cambodia, who along with three others pleaded guilty to stabbing and beating to death 16-year-old Ashton Cline-McMurray in 2000.

The Suffolk County District Attorney charged Heng and three others, all believed to be gang members, with murder. But they pleaded guilty to lesser charges ranging from manslaughter to second degree murder.

Cline-McMurray’s mother, Sandra Hutchinson, agreed to the plea deal after being told, she says, that defendants in this country illegally would be deported.

“They said that they would never set foot, basically, on American soil again. In other words, they'd be like in jail until they got sent back,â€