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Thursday, August 14, 2014

DHS released 600 immigrants with criminal records

By Susan Crabtree | August 12, 2014

In what is already fast becoming the latest flashpoint in the debate over allowing millions more illegal immigrants to remain in the United States legally, a government watchdog agency found that U.S. immigration officials released more than 600 undocumented immigrants in 2013 when faced with across-the-board budget cuts.

The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general released a report late Tuesday that found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the decision to release the criminals in order to cover the expected cuts from the sequester and budget impasse on Capitol Hill and free up detention bed space. The report said the ICE officials tried to differentiate between criminals who posed an ongoing threat from those convicted of lighter crimes, and released only those they believed weren’t a danger to society.

The release of the immigrants with criminal convictions breaks a federal law that requires them to be detained.  The IG report found that senior ICE officials did not have the permission of DHS leadership or the White House and did not inform them of their plans to release the criminals…To Read More…..

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