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'Prosecutorial discretion policies'

Thanks to Obama admin:In 2013 almost 70K illegals with criminal convictions released back into U.S.



According to a new Department of Homeland Security document, last year federal immigration agents encountered nearly 200,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions on their records. Of those, fully 35% were released back into the U.S. with no ICE charges filed.
As reported by The Hill:
An internal Department of Homeland Security document compiling statistics on arrests and deportations in 2013 showed that ICE agents encountered 193,357 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions but issued charging documents for only 125,478. More than 67,800 were released. The data came from an end-of-year "Weekly Departures and Detention Report." The Center for Immigration Studies, a research group that favors stricter enforcement of immigration laws, estimates ICE agents released more than a third of illegal immigrants with criminal records they detained.

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OK, fine, but you can hear the liberal bellyaching now. These people were probably let go because their crimes were extremely minor - things like unpaid parking tickets! There's no way these were "real criminals." Sorry, but no.
ICE classifies illegal immigrants as criminal if they have been convicted of a crime, not including traffic offense
So, yes. They're "real criminals," and that's not even taking into account the fact that that they're in the country illegally in the first place. Tell that to one of the President's faithful 'true believers' and they'll probably reply with something like "well, OK, but there must have been a legal reason that charges couldn't be filed." Wrong again. Most of the released illegals regained their freedom thanks to the President's "prosecutorial discretion policies."
"ICE released 68,000 criminal aliens in 2013, or 35 percent of the criminal aliens encountered by officers. The vast majority of these releases occurred because of the Obama administration's prosecutorial discretion policies," Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote in a memo summarizing the DHS document.
The Key Findings from Jessica Vaughn's report appear below. Her organization watchdogs illegal immigration, and only managed to get the ICE enforcement records after filing a lawsuit. Be sure to "like" Robert Laurie over on Facebook and follow him on Twitter. You'll be glad you did.
  • In 2013, ICE charged only 195,000, or 25 percent, out of 722,000 potentially deportable aliens they encountered. Most of these aliens came to ICE's attention after incarceration for a local arrest.
  • ICE released 68,000 criminal aliens in 2013, or 35 percent of the criminal aliens encountered by officers. The vast majority of these releases occurred because of the Obama administration's prosecutorial discretion policies, not because the aliens were not deportable.
  • ICE targeted 28 percent fewer aliens for deportation from the interior in 2013 than in 2012, despite sustained high numbers of encounters in the Criminal Alien and Secure Communities programs.
  • Every ICE field office but one reported a decline in interior enforcement activity, with the largest decline in the Atlanta field office, which covers Georgia and the Carolinas.
  • ICE reports that there are more than 870,000 aliens on its docket who have been ordered removed, but who remain in defiance of the law.
  • Under current policies, an alien's family relationships, political considerations, attention from advocacy groups, and other factors not related to public safety can trump even serious criminal convictions and result in the termination of a deportation case.
  • Less than 2 percent of ICE's caseload was in detention at the end of fiscal year 2013.
  • About three-fourths of the aliens ICE detained in 2013 had criminal and/or immigration convictions so serious that the detention was required by statute. This suggests the need for more detention capacity, so ICE can avoid releasing so many deportable criminal aliens.



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