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Number of deportation cases drops by nearly a third, report says
LA Times ^ | February 24, 2012 | Paloma Esquivel

Posted on 02/25/2012 6:32:15 PM PST by iowamark

The drop recorded in the last three months of 2011 may reflect the administration's plan to focus its deportation efforts by weighing discretionary factors, including whether the person is a veteran, came to the United States as a child or is a college student.

The number of deportation cases filed by federal immigration officials dropped by nearly a third in the first three months of the fiscal year, according to a report by the Syracuse University Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

The drop recorded in the last three months of 2011 may reflect the Obama administration's plan to focus its deportation efforts by weighing a variety of discretionary factors, including whether the person is a veteran, came to the U.S. as a child or is a college student, according to the report. But experts said it's too soon to say if deportations overall will decline.

From October through December, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiated 39,331 deportation cases in immigration court, down from 58,639 the previous quarter, the report says. Filings are typically lower during the holiday months, but even adjusted for the seasonal drop-off the numbers are significantly lower, according to the authors.

Immigration officials said they have not had the opportunity to review the data to verify their accuracy but added that the numbers don't fully encompass the ways in which a person can be deported. The report, said ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen, is focused only on submissions for deportations made to immigration courts.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; deport; immigration; obamanation; pandering

1 posted on 02/25/2012 6:32:16 PM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark
The drop recorded in the last three months of 2011 may reflect the administration's plan to focus its deportation efforts by weighing discretionary factors, including whether the person is a veteran, came to the United States as a child or is a college student.

"Discretionary factors" like how many illegal alien voters they can drum up for "Obama"? This makes me sick.

2 posted on 02/25/2012 6:36:42 PM PST by WXRGina (Further up and further in!)
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To: iowamark
MaoBama needs the illegals to vote in November.


3 posted on 02/25/2012 6:51:59 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: WXRGina

I’m kind of surprised they’re actually deporting anyone these daze.


4 posted on 02/25/2012 7:11:18 PM PST by rbg81 (scillian's)
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To: rbg81

They’re pouncing on those Canucklehead snowbirds terrorizing Quartzite and Yuma!


5 posted on 02/25/2012 7:17:06 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: iowamark

That is a pathetically low number of deportations given the number of illegals in this country. Of course, that’s the plan. Let them stay here and as their children become a major, legal, voting bloc push for immigration ‘reform’ which is the legalization of criminal activity by foreign citizens.


6 posted on 02/25/2012 8:42:39 PM PST by jimnm
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To: WXRGina

Yesterday 63 illegals arrested after county sets them free
Prisons in Santa Clara County, Calif., are saying no to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and it’s leading to some embarrassing high profile incidents, including the arrests by federal agents of 63 illegal immigrants shortly after the county set them free.As part of an ordinance passed last November, ICE agents are barred from all Santa Clara County prison facilities.

WND previously was told by a Santa Clara County official that there have been no high-profile embarrassing incidents as a result of the ordinance.

But federal officials are reporting ICE agents arrested 63 people – all with ICE detainers that had been ignored by Santa Clara County – in just one recent raid.

The San Jose Mercury News recently described the federal agency’s snub of county plans, saying, “In an apparent end-around Santa Clara County’s new immigration policy, federal agents [swept] into the South Bay last week, arrested 63 undocumented residents recently released from jail and now are seeking to deport them.”

The report said, “The action comes two months after the county enacted a sweeping policy to reduce its role in aiding the federal deportation effort, and provoked outrage among community activists.”

Among those detained in the raids, ICE released the descriptions of four especially bad players, including:

“A Mexican national convicted earlier this year of felony possession of heroin for sale who was sentenced to six months in prison.”

“A 49-year-old male Mexican national convicted in 2011 of child molestation.”

“A 29-year-old male Mexican national with prior convictions for kidnapping and cocaine possession.”

“A 48-year-old woman from Mexico with 13 aliases who has prior felony convictions for forgery and misuse of an entry document. Having been removed from the United States five times, she now faces federal prosecution for felony re-entry after deportation.”

It was in November of 2011 when the Santa Clara County Board passed a plan that largely mirrored legislation passed in Cook County, Ill. Ostensibly, the legislation ended each county’s cooperation with the process of ICE detainers.

ICE detainers are holds, up to two business days, that ICE places on municipal inmates. In the fine print of each piece of legislation is also language which spells out how the county will bar ICE agents from county prisons.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/63-illegals-arrested-after-county-sets-them-free/
Guess they are down when cities are setting them free


7 posted on 02/26/2012 11:06:01 AM PST by moonshinner_09
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