Sessions Responds To New Report Revealing Dramatic Collapse Of Interior Enforcement
Mar 31 2014
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today concerning a new DHS document showing the mass release of criminal aliens in 2013:
“The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that immigration enforcement in America has collapsed. Even those with criminal convictions are being released. DHS is a department in crisis. Secretary 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.
American citizens have a legal and moral right to the protections our immigration laws afford—at the border, the interior and the workplace. 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 U.S. 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.
The Administration’s lawless policies have not only impaired public safety but increased economic suffering for millions of vulnerable Americans by depriving them of their jobs and wages.
Unfortunately, Congressional Democrats continue to empower this lawlessness. Republicans must work to end it.”
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http://www.sessions.senate.gov/publi...al-convictions
Will AP, Which Covered Group Protesting 'Higher' Deportations, Note CIS Study Of Ille
Will AP, Which Covered Group Protesting 'Higher' Deportations, Note CIS Study Of Illegal-Immigrant Criminals Released?
Two weeks ago, Nicholas Riccardi at the Associated Press basically gave an open mic to immigration amnesty groups who pretend to believe that the Obama administration has been deporting more immigrants who are here illegally per year than previous administrations did. Some of the groups involved are moving to disruptive tactics which look more like attempts at mob rule than those employed in a civil society.
Today, several center-right news outlets and blogs are reporting that the Center for Immigration Studies has reviewed information recently released by Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm. Unsurprisingly, CIS has found far more laxness in deportation efforts. But what may surprise many, and what should be reported by AP and other establishment press outlets if they have any consistency and integrity, is how nonchalant the administration has been in releasing hardened criminals onto America's streets. Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times appears to have been the first to report on situation on Sunday:
68,000 illegal aliens with criminal records caught and released
Obama policy weak on enforcement
Immigration agents tried to deport only about a fourth of the cases they encountered in 2013, said a report being released Monday from the Center for Immigration Studies that shows just how much President Obama’s policies have cut down on potential enforcement.
Jessica Vaughan, the report’s author, called it a form of “catch and release.” She said agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement received more than 720,000 hits on immigrants who could be eligible for deportation but filed charges against fewer than 195,000 of them.
Of those let go, 68,000 had criminal convictions on their records. All told, more than 870,000 immigrants have been ordered removed from the U.S. but are defying the government and refusing to leave. “These numbers confirm that interior enforcement has been anything but tough — that in fact, ICE is releasing more illegal aliens and more criminal aliens than they’re trying to remove,” said Ms. Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates a crackdown on immigration.
The American Immigration Council, though, said the numbers were “completely misleading” and that many of those ICE agents encountered were likely kicked out of the country even if they weren’t officially put into deportation proceedings.
Dinan allowed AIC to elaborate further. Its take on things appears to be based on sheer fantasy, which is why I haven't included it.
What CIS has found certainly which deserves wide press distribution if the goal is really to inform the American public of the real-world results of the Obama administration's policies. If AP doesn't want to take CIS's word for what it found, the wire service can go to the same stats CIS did. If it does, it will almost certainly obtain identical results.
The educated and experienced guess here is that AP and most other establishment press outlets will ignore CIS's work, and continue to be unabashed cheerleaders for amnesty.
From here, the very idea of amnesty is absurd as long as there's no meaningful attempt to enforce border security. Without border security, one amnesty will simply lead to another, and another, and another ...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blu...-note-cis-stud
We have the article by Nicholas Riccardi previously posted:
http://www.alipac.us/f12/illegal-imm...ations-299363/
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Homeland Security Not Doing Its Job
Tuesday, 01 Apr 2014 01:56 PM
By Lisa Barron
newsmax
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has slammed the Department of Homeland Security after a report revealed that federal agents last year released 68,000 immigrants with criminal records.
"You know, two weeks ago I had a press conference regarding this situation. I had the real facts because I analyzed the 1,300 inmates in our jails presently and out of 1,300, over 31 percent have come back multiple times," he told Newsmax TV's John Bachman and J.D. Hayworth on "America's Forum" Tuesday.
"Over and over they come back on serious crimes, so evidently the Homeland Security and ICE are letting them out the back door, or they're deporting them, and they keep coming back, so there's a problem.
Arpaio, the six-time elected sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County, said he is sending the records to Homeland Security and demanding answers.
The self-styled "toughest sheriff" in America revealed that while he is still considering a bid for governor, he will not challenge Sen. John McCain, who has advocated amnesty and received a vote of disapproval from the Arizona GOP for not being conservative enough.
"I've been in Washington three times, I was a Regional Director in Mexico, South America, all over the place. I don't want to go back to Washington. I'll tell you one thing, if I don't run for governor, I'm running for sheriff in 2016. I'm against amnesty, and I come right out and say it. We should enforce the laws, change the laws."
Asked about claims by the Obama administration that it has deported more people than any other in history in light of the new report, Arpaio replied, "Smoke and mirrors, because the president, when a guy hops over the fence, crosses the border, dumps them back over and he's taking credit as a deportation. I don't know what his motive is, but the point is, he's come up with all these executive orders circumventing Congress and everything else, so something has to change.
"But I'm going to keep doing my job. I'm the only one going into businesses and locking up people that are here illegally with fake identification, and there's been some court decisions against me, but we'll see what happens in the future," Arpaio said.
http://www.newsmax.com/NewsmaxTv/Joe.../01/id/563049/
LA Times: Deportations Up Near Border, But Not Inside US
Wednesday, 02 Apr 2014 02:15 PM
By Melissa Clyne
newsmax
Despite reports to the contrary, deportations of illegal immigrants settled in the United States are down 40 percent since President Barack Obama took office, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Obama has taken heat from Latino groups, one leader dubbing him "deporter in chief," amid furor that his administration has removed more illegal immigrants from the United States than his Republican predecessor, President George W. Bush.
What has risen, according to the Times, is the number of people apprehended at the border and returned to Mexico. The explanation is that it’s because of a change in who gets counted in statistics kept by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Under previous administrations, according to the report, border crossers were returned to Mexico and not counted in ICE statistics. During the Bush administration, that changed. People apprehended at the border were fingerprinted and formally deported, a policy shift enacted to make sure those who illegally entered the country would have a formal charge on their record.
The number of deportations has risen during Obama’s tenure, but only for people picked up within 100 miles of the border. Last year, those caught entering the country within that distance accounted for almost two-thirds of deportations.
The Washington Times reported last month that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson confirmed that his department’s deportation figures were vastly composed of border apprehensions and not from the interior.
Interior deportations, the Times reported, dropped from 237,941 during Obama’s first year in office to 133,551 in 2013. In four out of five cases, the illegal immigrants landed on authorities’ radar as a result of criminal convictions.
Immigration roundups in the workplace have mostly been replaced with investigations of business owners illegally hiring foreign workers, according to the Times.
"If you are a run-of-the-mill immigrant here illegally, your odds of getting deported are close to zero — it's just highly unlikely to happen," John Sandweg, former acting director of ICE, told the newspaper.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/imm.../02/id/563301/