REPORT: OBAMA ADMIN RELEASED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS
REPORT: OBAMA ADMIN RELEASED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS
by MATTHEW BOYLE
30 Mar 2014
President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security caught then released 68,000 aliens who had previously been convicted of a crime, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows.
The report, provided to Breitbart News ahead of its late Sunday evening release, reviews internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) metrics to conclude that the Obama administration released 35 percent—or 68,000—convicted criminal aliens back into the U.S. general population when they could have been deported. “The criminal alien releases typically occur without formal notice to local law enforcement agencies and victims,” CIS’s Jessica Vaughan, the report’s author, added.
By “criminal,” ICE means people who have been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony that is not a traffic violation. For instance, traffic violations like Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or even vehicular manslaughter do not count toward this description of “criminal alien.” As for the definition of “alien,” ICE mostly means illegal aliens, though some are legal aliens when they are considered deportable legal aliens—which is possible for legal immigrants who have committed a serious crime, like a felony.
The documents also show ICE only deported a small fraction of the aliens they encountered overall.
“In 2013, ICE targeted only 195,000, or 25 percent, out of 722,000 potentially deportable aliens they encountered,” CIS’s Vaughan wrote. “Most of these aliens came to ICE’s attention after incarceration for a local arrest.”
This report comes out on the heels of a report from the office of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) last week which found that only .08 percent of the aliens deported in 2013 were not serial immigration law violators or convicted of serious crimes.
In response to these findings from CIS that follow up on his office’s report last week, Sessions said immigration law in America has essentially ceased to exist.
“The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that immigration enforcement in America has collapsed,” Sessions said. “Even those with criminal convictions are being released. DHS is a department in crisis. Secretary [Jeh] Johnson must reject the President’s demands to weaken enforcement further and tell him that his duty, and his officers’ duty, is to enforce the law – not break it. As Homeland Secretary, Mr. Johnson is tasked with ensuring the public safety and the rule of law. But Secretary Johnson is not meeting these duties.”
The CIS report also contains a breakdown per city of percentages of criminal aliens who were released back into the population. San Antonio’s 79 percent is the highest, where ICE encountered 36,228 criminal aliens and released 28,680 back into the general population in 2013. New York City’s 71 percent is next, where ICE agents encountered 7,571 criminal aliens and released 5,391 of them. Washington, D.C. follows that, with ICE agents encountering 8,688 criminal aliens and releasing 64 percent, or 5,558, of them into the public.
Other cities with high percentages include Salt Lake City, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Newark, and Buffalo.
Notably, many of these cities are not in border states, which means visa overstays and illegal aliens who crossed the border but migrated further inward are as much a problem as the actual U.S.-Mexico border in terms of stopping the flow and enforcing the law.
“These findings raise further alarm over the Obama administration’s pending review of deportation practices, which reportedly may further expand the administration’s abuse of ‘prosecutorial discretion,’” CIS’s Vaughan wrote. “Interior enforcement activity has already declined 40 percent since the imposition of “prosecutorial discretion” policies in 2011. Rather than accelerating this decline, there is an urgent need to review and reverse the public safety and fiscal harm cause by the president’s policies.”
Sessions echoed Vaughan’s concerns, saying the lack of enforcement for immigration laws further hurts the ability of American citizens to obtain employment.
“American citizens have a legal and moral right to the protections our immigration laws afford – at the border, the interior and the workplace,” Sessions said. “The administration has stripped these protections and adopted a government policy that encourages new arrivals to enter illegally or overstay visas by advertising immunity from future enforcement. Comments from top Administration officials, such as Attorney General Holder’s claim that amnesty is a civil right, or Vice President Biden’s claim that those here illegally are all US citizens (apparently including someone whose visa expired yesterday), demonstrate the administration’s increasing belief in an open borders policy the American public has always rejected."
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/30/REPORT-Obama-Admin-Released-Tens-Of-Thousands-Of-Illegal-Immigrant-Criminals
Almost 70,000 illegal immigrants with CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS released back into the US
The Right Scoop
Posted on Mar 31, 2014
By Joe Guest
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If the GOP cares for their own survival as a party and America as a country, they need to push for enforcement, enforcement, enforcement at the border, BEFORE any other talk about immigration reform!
Almost 70,000 illegal immigrants with CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS released back into the US last year
Senator Rubio, please read this from The Hill:
An internal Department of Homeland Security document compiling statistics on arrests and deportations in 2013 showed that ICE agents encountered 193,357 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions but issued charging documents for only 125,478. More than 67,800 were released.
The data came from an end-of-year “Weekly Departures and Detention Report.” The Center for Immigration Studies, a research group that favors stricter enforcement of immigration laws, estimates ICE agents released more than a third of illegal immigrants with criminal records they detained. “ICE released 68,000 criminal aliens in 2013, or 35 percent of the criminal aliens encountered by officers.
The vast majority of these releases occurred because of the Obama administration’s prosecutorial discretion policies,” Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote in a memo summarizing the DHS document. ICE classifies illegal immigrants as criminal if they have been convicted of a crime, not including traffic offense, Vaughn noted…
The Center for Immigration Studies reports that ICE officials moved to deport 28 percent fewer illegal immigrants from the interior of the country in 2013 than in 2012 [interior means those arrested deep inside the United States; instead of at the Border].
So basically, President Obama is letting as many illegals stay in the US so that they will get citizenship once the GOP caves on this issue. If the GOP cares for their own survival as a party and America as a country, they need to push for enforcement, enforcement, enforcement at the border, BEFORE any other talk about immigration reform!
http://therightscoop.com/almost-7000...-us-last-year/
Arizona sheriff calls Obama administration’s deportation record ‘a travesty’
6:51 PM 03/31/2014
Brendan Bordelon
The Daily Caller
Steve Henry, the Chief Deputy Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, called the Obama administration’s deportation record “a travesty,” after a new report revealed that the Department of Homeland Security released 68,000 illegal aliens convicted of crimes in 2013.
Henry spoke with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto about the report on Monday, becoming Arizona’s second high-ranking law enforcement officer to challenge the White House’s immigration narrative on national television. Last week Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the top law-enforcement officer for neighboring Maricopa County, accused the Obama administration of using “smoke and mirrors” to obscure the true number of immigrants actually deported.
“Well essentially what happened is, the federal government once again hasn’t done their job,” Henry began. “And it’s truly what you said. It’s a travesty. Each and every day law enforcement — especially here in Arizona — goes out and fights this battle that the federal government is supposed to be fighting.”
“And we put ourselves at risk for the good of the country,” he continued. “And if 68,000 out of 722,000 could’ve been deported in 2013, it’s just amazing.”
Henry said he wasn’t surprised, noting that whistleblowers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol said as much early last year. “We reached out to the Secretary [of Homeland Security] back then, and you know, it was crickets,” he claimed.
The deputy sheriff said that many of the illegal criminals his county turns over to ICE are released through a “revolving door.”
“We call it ‘in through the out door,’” he said, explaining that even many violent criminals are released into the United States ‘temporarily’ until a court date can be set for their sentencing and deportation.
“The federal government believes that if you give someone who doesn’t have standing in the country, doesn’t have any anchor in this country, that if they sign a piece of paper with a promise to appear at a future court date — and maybe or maybe not you put an electronic bracelet on their ankle — that they’re going to come back,” he scoffed. “I beg to differ. Come on, really? We know it doesn’t work.”
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/31/ar...rd-a-travesty/