Thread: Report Finds Significant Problems In Removal of Aliens

Report Finds Significant Problems In Removal Of Aliens

AP - 3/19/2007 6:54 PM - Updated 3/19/2007 6:55 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Due partly to a shortage of federal agents and poor record-keeping, aliens under court order to be removed from the country often face unconstitutionally long detentions, an inspector general has found.

A report to be released Tuesday by the Homeland Security Department inspector general found that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement service is hobbled by outdated databases and inadequate staffing in trying to deal with alien removals.

``Cases are not prioritized to ensure that aliens who are dangerous or whose departure is in the national interest are removed,'' Inspector General Richard Skinner wrote in the report, ``or that their release within the United States is adequately supervised.''

Skinner also concluded that there are vulnerabilities in the agency's approach and that it is ``not well-positioned to oversee the growing detention caseload'' that will result from the Homeland Security Department's emphasis on increasing security on the nation's borders.

Roughly 20 percent of aliens under a final order of removal have been kept locked up past six months, the time the Supreme Court ruled in 2001 should be considered reasonable.

Until that ruling, the government would indefinitely detain aliens who were considered dangerous but who for various reasons could not be returned to their home countries. Some faced danger there, and some home countries refused to accept them.

In the June 2001 ruling, the court said that unless an alien could be proven a danger to the community or the U.S. national interest, he or she could not be held indefinitely.

The inspector general found that ``for those aliens remaining in detention, field office compliance with regulatory review requirements was inconsistent.'' Documents were not always provided and were not always timely, the report said, and some offices used incorrect legal standards and outdated materials.

The report found that in the past five years there was a sharp decline in the numbers of detained Cubans, Laotians, Cambodians and Vietnamese, reflecting the fact that their countries will not take them back.

Most aliens from those countries, which do not have easy relations with the U.S., are released into the U.S. unless the government meets strict criteria that would allow them to continue to be held as dangerous.

On the other hand, the report found there were higher detention rates for Indians, Haitians, Pakistanis and Chinese nationals, due to their home countries being willing to accept them, but only providing travel documentation after long delays.

In one example, the report noted that in March 2006 there were 246 Chinese being detained and that by June of that year 63 percent, or 156, were still in detention. China had agreed to accept them back but then delayed the charter flights several times, the report said.


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we need to fast track these deportations and if the illegal wants to fight it he /she should do it from within their country's borders.

How much do you want to bet this has something to do with Kennedy little visit to Chertoff last week about the raids.

No room for them cannot do raids no place to put them, I see whats happening here, Chertoff!!!! DO YOU JOB!!!

Its actually very simple, do you think its difficult or damn near impossible by chance?

Lone Patriot, I couldn't agree more. Then to you are a thinking person, unlike many of the brain dead currently occupying office.

Due partly to a shortage of federal agents and poor record-keeping, aliens under court order to be removed from the country often face unconstitutionally long detentions, an inspector general has found

One more reason to abolish the immigration courts. Mexico doesn't give their captures illegals a day in court. Why should we?

We should just kick them out. Many countries are like Mexico and don't give you a day in court. Why should we listen to their sob stories in court. Just think that if we didn't have to deal with them in court and detain them we could have a lot more money availible for ICE agents to catch and deport more of them.

growing detention caseload = growing criminal problem

= Laws at the point of entry need enforced

and some home countries refused to accept them

= we for sure dont want them

In one example, the report noted that in March 2006 there were 246 Chinese being detained and that by June of that year 63 percent, or 156, were still in detention. China had agreed to accept them back but then delayed the charter flights several times, the report said

= let them pick fruit till the plane come

One of the problems is the ones from central and south America we have to get together and pay to fly their butts back, we can not just drop them off at the border. Although we should since Mexico let them come through their country!!

Send them all to Mexico! No appeals, no courts. Just pick them up and send them back. Then we will not be spending loads of money to put them in detention while waiting.