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Thursday, February 04, 2010

In Case You Thought They Were Actually Doing Something


A top official in the Obama administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said that the move away from work-site raids has reduced the number of illegal aliens who have been arrested and led to the release of many of those who had been detained.

David Venturella, acting director of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations with ICE, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security, made the remarks at an event at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

“I think there have been very few operations that have generated arrests of undocumented workers,” Venturella said at the event, which was held to mark the release of an Urban Institute report on the children of illegal aliens who are arrested for being in the country illegally, including some sought for criminal violations. “And in most cases, even though they were small scale, we follow our administrative guidelines on how to deal with individuals once they are arrested and placed in our custody.”

“And in many of those instances, they were released or placed on some form of alternative detention,” Venturella said. “So we will continue to proceed that way, at least under this administration.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

how about we start with the ones who aren't here working, like obamas aunt! then after we get rid of the leeches we can start going after the rest!
just fine any company hiring illegals to the tune of $1,000,000.00 per illegal hired. making it economically unplatable for the companies and the illegals will go home on their own, or they get busted stealing and then we get them in the system and then send them home!

Anonymous said...

He "looks" like a person who really cares about the American perspective.

Anonymous said...

Democrats are insane