68,000 illegal aliens with criminal records released last year
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.
ICE classifies illegal immigrants as criminal if they have been
convicted of a crime, not including traffic offense, Vaughn noted.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee, blasted the administration’s record.
“The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that immigration
enforcement in America has collapsed. Even those with criminal
convictions are being released. DHS is a department in crisis,” he said
in a statement Sunday.
“Secretary Johnson must reject the president’s demands to weaken
enforcement further and tell him that his duty, and his officers’ duty,
is to enforce the law — not break it,” he added in reference to Homeland
Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
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