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Thursday, April 03, 2014

Report: U.S. Releases 1 in 3 Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Crimes

Federal immigration officials last year charged only one of every four “deportable” illegal immigrants and released more than a third of those convicted of crimes, according to a new report based on data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) itself.

ICE agents last year “charged only 195,000 or 25 percent, out of 722,000 potentially deportable aliens they encountered,” the report by the Center for Immigration Studies said. ICE released 68,000 illegal immigrants convicted of criminal offenses, “or 35 percent of the criminal aliens encountered by officers.”

Although the Obama administration frequently cites record-breaking deportation numbers, the report reflects what Republican lawmakers have said is a 40 percent drop in deportations from the interior of the country (as opposed to turn-backs at the border) since 2009.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If we simply executed them - it would cure the problem...

Anonymous said...

They got the math wrong. 100% of them are guilty of a crime. They wouldn't be "illegals" if they weren't.

Anonymous said...

11:48 Same could be said for every member of organized religion, as they cause more harm that an illegal.