Thread: Surprise: 96 Percent of Illegal Immigrant Families With Deportation Orders Never Show

Leah Barkoukis | Dec 30, 2014

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When tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Central America crossed the border earlier this year, many of them had to be released on their own recognizance because there simply wasn’t enough space to detain them all. Now, a Houston television station has confirmed what we knew would happen all along: the vast majority of them never showed up for their immigration hearings.

After six months of requests, the Executive Office of Immigration Review told Houston’s KPRC that 96 percent of the more than 4,100 families released on recognizance and ordered deported did not show up to court, prompting the government to classify them “in absentia.”
A similar 92 percent of the more than 1,600 unaccompanied children to be deported did not show up.
The Executive Office of Immigration Review usually reports an 11 percent to 15 percent annual “in absentia” rate, far below this year’s jump.
Among the thousands who were caught and detained by Border Patrol, the court process remains sluggish. A mere 22 percent of the more than 30,400 families and unaccompanied children caught have received a court decision.

Thus, the White House’s focus on border apprehensions as a key indicator of border security is both “meaningless” and “deliberately misleading,” immigration expert Jessica Vaughan explains. “Apprehensions are not a metric of enforcement when illegal aliens are apprehended and then routinely released under the guise of "deportation proceedings", "asylum applications", or even "budget constraints".
Further, any proposals that claim to want to enhance border security and enforcement by providing more resources, more personnel, more technology, and more infrastructure for immigration agencies without addressing the underlying policies that serve to undercut enforcement should be viewed with great skepticism."
Given these catch-and-release policies and Obama's executive amnesty, what exactly is left to deter future border crossers? After all, many who did so this year have now disappeared and dispersed across the United States and are reaping the benefits thanks to American taxpayers who are forced to pick up the tab for everything from education to health care. No wonder Immigration and Customs Enforcement is already gearing up for a new spring surge.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbar...rings-n1937096

Haven't heard this on the TV news! <smirk>

96%, probably more like 100%. Why should or would they show up?

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A Houston television station has confirmed that which has long been suspected – 96 percent of illegal alien families released on their own recognizance and ordered deported in recent months did not show up for their court dates.

This means those families are still living illegally within the U.S., and it falls to the Department of Homeland Security to track and deport the aliens, something officials have confessed can be “almost impossible.”

The development was completely foreseeable.

In August, WND exclusively reported the U.S. government has known for nearly a decade that the vast majority of all illegal aliens released to the streets by immigration agencies fail to show up for their deportation hearings. Yet little has been done to rectify a problem that has now become a near national emergency.

Houston’s KPRC-TV, Channel 2, reported it spent six months trying to get the latest data from the U.S. government.

Finally, the Executive Office of Immigration Review gave the news channel the information about the percentage that failed to show up in court, prompting judges to order the removals “in absentia.”

The Houston channel reported on the tens of thousands released on their own recognizance from detention centers because there was not enough holding space, with all the detainees being ordered to report for a future court hearing.

Of the over 30,467 families and unaccompanied alien children, or UACs, caught illegally crossing over the Southern border between July 18 and Oct. 28, 2014, only 22 percent have received a court decision about whether they can stay in the U.S. Most of those ordered removed cannot be found, since they didn’t show up in court, reported KPRC.

Of the 15,614 families caught between July and October and not detained, 4,197 have been ordered removed from the U.S., but 96 percent of the orders were issued “in absentia,” since the illegals failed to show up in court.

Of the 1,671 UACs ordered removed during the same time period, more than 92 percent failed to show up in court.

Illegals ditching hearings long-known to feds

As early as 1992, the U.S. government knew it had a problem with a significant portion of illegal aliens released on their own accord not showing up for their court dates.

Illegals crossing into the U.S. have known since at least the early 1990s that once they are released, most will likely face no real consequences for skipping immigration court appearances.

As early as Dec. 28, 1993, Knight-Ridder Newspapers reported the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the precursor to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, had “lost control of its most effective weapon – deporting unwanted immigrants.”

The newspaper reported specific examples of deported Mexicans who turned around and came back within days. It also reported that in 1992, a full 35 percent, or 25,000, illegal aliens released into the U.S. pending court dates did not appear for their deportation hearings.

“INS has no tracking system to find undocumented immigrants who don’t show up,” reported the newspaper.

Fast forward 12 years, and the problem worsened exponentially.

In June 2005, the Washington Times noted the U.S. government was releasing on their own recognizance about 70 percent of all so-called “other-than-Mexican” illegals captured along the Southern border. However, Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar told the Senate Judiciary Committee that year that few show up for their court dates.

One month later, the Times ran an editorial titled “The ‘Other Than Mexican’ Loophole,” which noted that 70 percent of more than 98,000 non-Mexican nationals were captured and released with court dates.

“When the illegal ‘other than Mexican’ defendants are released immediately and then don’t show up for immigration court, it’s hard to deport them, obviously,” the newspaper stated.

In September 2005, Jerry Seper of the Washington Times reported that only 13 percent of the “other than Mexicans” released with a “notice to appear” were showing up for their immigration hearing.

In March 2006, the San Bernardino County Sun quoted T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, warning the majority of those caught do not return for court appearances.

“Instead they disappear into the United States and become almost impossible to trace,” the newspaper paraphrased Bonner as saying.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/shocking-...n-deportation/

Originally Posted by Jean

96%, probably more like 100%. Why should or would they show up?

Precisely.

The Demos don't want anybody messing with their precious Undocumented Democrats, the Repub leadership doesn't want anybody messing with the surplus labor that their big money donors covet.
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And these are the illegal aliens "just looking for a better life" in our "Nation of Immigrants" that Stupid Morons in our government believe make contributions to our economy? Will pay income taxes? Will "buttress Social Security and Medicare"? Will save American businesses? Help someone win the White House?

Really?!

Uuuh, no, no, no, no and no. These are not the people who will contribute, pay, buttress, save or help anyone or anything. These are the people who broke the law to get here and will break it every day they are here. This is the new NFL, "Needy Family Lawbreakers."

If I recall correctly, this 96% that do not show up for hearings is about the same statistic for the illegals that were part of "Catch and Release" under the Bush administration.

W

You would think that such a well known problem (catch and release) would have been resolved by our U.S. Congress. However, over the last decade no bill connected to immigration seems to get through the Congress unless it has the word "reform" in it. The Democrats will not allow anything to pass that doesn't grant amnesty to illegals. Heck, we can't even get a national E-verify bill through the Congress!

We can end the catch and release policy by building tent cities along the border and beefing up immigration judge numbers in those areas. There is no reason an illegal alien can't be turned around (judged and deported) in 30 days. Any illegal caught in another part of the country should immediately be shipped to one of the "tent cities" while awaiting a hearing from one of the border immigration judges.

Originally Posted by MW

You would think that such a well known problem (catch and release) would have been resolved by our U.S. Congress. However, over the last decade no bill connected to immigration seems to get through the Congress unless it has the word "reform" in it. The Democrats will not allow anything to pass that doesn't grant amnesty to illegals. Heck, we can't even get a national E-verify bill through the Congress!

We can end the catch and release policy by building tent cities along the border and beefing up immigration judge numbers in those areas. There is no reason an illegal alien can't be turned around (judged and deported) in 30 days. Any illegal caught in another part of the country should immediately be shipped to one of the "tent cities" while awaiting a hearing from one of the border immigration judges.

So much common sense in your reasoning MW but common sense is seldom seen in politics.

Illegal aliens need to be held in custody until the deportation order is issued and arrangements for removal are made. I really like MW's suggestion about the tent cities and more judges to process them more quickly. There is very little to resolve, if they aren't citizens and do not have a birth certificate on file in the US, do not have naturalization records, or are immigrants who are traveling without their green cards or visas, all of which can be determined within a few hours, then what is the purpose of these long drawn out deportation procedures to begin with? I think they're just a ploy by the government to continue the illegal stay through an ineffective catch and release program so they don't have to deport them because they can't find them again to do so. It seems to me that this is just more evidence of the total ineptitude of the federal government to enforce US immigration law which means the states have every right to pick up the slack and enforce it themselves.