Thread: EXCLUSIVE: DHS Can’t Account for 10 Libyan Men It Caught and Released Inside U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: DHS Can’t Account for 10 Libyan Men It Caught and Released Inside U.S.
Friday, April 22, 2011
By Penny Starr

President Barack Obama and Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in L’Aquila, Italy, on July 9, 2009. (AP photo/Michael Gottschalk)

(CNSNews.com) - Even as President Barack Obama continued the U.S. military intervention in Libya’s civil war--with armed Predator drones beginning patrols over that North African country on Thursday--U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the division of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing immigration laws, could not account for 10 Libyan men it had caught and released inside the United States since July 2009.

After two weeks of inquiries about the Libyans from CNSNews.com, ICE finally responded on Thursday afternoon that it had already released to CNSNews.com all the information that was “availableâ€