Posted on 09/08/2010 7:45:02 AM PDT by La Lydia
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) says that as of Sunday, Sept. 5, it had caught-and-released 506,232 illegal aliens who are now fugtives. That is more than the population of Sacramento, California, which currently numbers 486,189. Fugitive illegal aliens are individuals who were apprehended ICE for being in the United States illegally and then were released ahead of their court proceedings and deemed fugitive when they failed to appear in court.
CNSNews.com asked Brian P. Hale, director of public affairs at ICE, about DHS’s annual report Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2009, which includes information on apprehensions and deportations but does not include data on illegal aliens who are fugitives from the law. CNSNews.com asked if ICE could provide the number of illegal alien fugitives for FY 2009 and the number to date for 2010.
In an e-mail to CNSNews.com, Hale said the fugitive backlog as of Oct. 1, 2009 (the first day of FY 2010) was 534,497. He also said that number had been reduced by 28,265 since then, making the total fugitive backlog of illegal aliens 506,232 as of Sept. 5, 2010.
“It is important to note that our fugitive operations teams now can spend up to 30 percent of their time arresting convicted criminals at-large,” Hale said. “Thus, their fugitive arrests don’t reflect all of their work.”
In an earlier story on the number of fugitives that are in the United States illegally from countries other than Mexico, CNSNews.com asked ICE spokeswoman Gillian Brigham to define what DHS considers a fugitive. Brigham said a “fugitive” is defined as an individual who has been found legally deportable and has evaded authorities...
Don’t worry folks. We’ve got their names on file.
Catch and release makes for good sport. /s/
Deliberate sabotage of the law.
How can anyone expect a person who is illegal in the fist place to show up for trial.
I guess I’m not very smart. It seems to me that if you arrest an illegal, you simply send them back across the border????????????????
Sure, that’s just what they’re admitting to. Tack another zero on that number and it’d be closer. Of course, those are just the ones they’ve actually gotten up from their desk and gone out to pick up and not the millions they have ignored. Heck, they can’t find an illegal in a Raza parade.
We need a government for the people..
2 years ago I would have attributed it to incompetence, now, with those in positions of power, coming forward on a daily basis, to slam America and claim we are all a bunch of racists etc. I see it is clearly sabotage. We’ve had sheriffs, politicians, judges etc all stating, out loud, that they will defy the law and at this point, we are borderline to having anarchy throughout the country because of it.
Incompetence? Or deliberate sabotage of the law?
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Actually, they’re very competent at deliberatley sabotaging the law.
Catch and release makes for good sport. /s/
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Like I do with my fish, but not people. Catch um, clean um and send them home (across the border) in time for dinner!
They have to be released here so they can vote
The fact that the nitwits at ICE can apprehend this many illegals belies the agency’s constant denials that it can realisticly catch so many illegals in a year or handle mass deportations. The government could do so, if the politicians had the willpower to carry it off. The truth is that the politicians want illegals.
And to think our tax money supports this three ring circle jerk......
Or, whatever names they gave us at the time.
Budget. They don’t want to pay to house and feed the Illegals they arrest.
They get a hearing before deportation. ICE doesn’t want to have to feed and house them while they wait for the hearing. Since ICE KNOWS that they’re flight risks and that most won’t show up again, this also saves on lawyer and judge time.
“Don’t worry folks. We’ve got their names on file.”
Yes, Juan Jesus Esperito Rodriquez
AKA.........................................
wait till the country gets a load of what their brethren in bureaucracy does for healthcare.
The new definition of insanity-—
“”Fugitive illegal aliens are individuals who were apprehended ICE for being in the United States illegally and then were released ahead of their court proceedings and deemed fugitive when they failed to appear in court.””
When the above happens over 500,000 times, even I would conclude the system is not working.
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