Posted on 08/10/2010 6:00:14 AM PDT by La Lydia
Records show that about 47,000 people have been removed or deported from the U.S. after the Homeland Security Department sifted through 3 million sets of fingerprints taken from bookings at local jails. About one-quarter of those kicked out of the country did not have criminal records, according to government data obtained by immigration advocacy groups that have filed a lawsuit...As issue is a fingerprint-sharing program known as Secure Communities that the government says is focused on getting rid of the "worst of the worst" criminal immigrants from the U.S. Immigration advocates say that the government instead spends too much time on lower-level criminals or non-criminals.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement divides crimes into three categories, with Level 1 being the most serious. Most of those deported committed Level 2 or 3 crimes or were non-criminals...
"ICE has pulled a bait and switch, with local law enforcement spending more time and resources facilitating the deportations of bus boys and gardeners than murderers and rapists and at considerable cost to local community policing strategies, making us all less safe," said Peter Markowitz, director of the Immigration Justice Clinic at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.
Richard Rocha, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman, said non-criminals still may be people who have failed to show up for deportation hearings, who recently crossed the border illegally or who re-entered the country after deportation. He also said it's important to remember that more people commit crimes that are considered Level 2 and 3....
From October 2008 through June of this year, 46,929 people identified through Secure Communities were removed from the U.S., the documents show. Of those, 12,293 were considered non-criminals.
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Someone should remind the moron that wrote this article that being in this country illegally makes that you a criminal.
I wonder how many of these “La “center students are gettin gfed aid.
Reminding Suzanne Gamboa of anything resembling reality is a futile gesture. She long ago bought into the open borders idea.
When an individual crosses a border illegally, he/she/it becomes a criminal worthy of deportation if not imprisonment. Those here illegally are, at a minimum, thieves; they steal wages and benefits from legal residents and citizens.
Exactly what the Federal government did to the state government of Arizona.
Too bad it wasn’t 4.7 million.
The author is clueless.
It is also about using the same documents over and over.
Take a legit set of documents give them to illegal.
illegal crosses the border using the documents.
documents are given to coyote.
repeat for next illegal.
now if the name on the document is a felon, then that illegal has double criminal problems.
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