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Thousands Released After Immigration Holds Denied
ABC News ^ | October 17, 2014 | By AMY TAXIN Associated Press

Posted on 10/17/2014 5:18:52 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

Immigration officials say local authorities across the U.S. released thousands of immigrants from jails this year despite efforts to take them into federal custody, including more than 3,000 with previous felony charges or convictions.

The numbers are the first time federal immigration authorities have publicly detailed how many times local agencies have refused to comply with their requests. They highlight the friction between the federal government and police and sheriff's departments, some of which say holding immigrants beyond their release dates harms community policing efforts.

Immigration officials say the denials pose a public safety threat as immigrants who previously would have been placed in federal custody once they were eligible to leave jail are being released into communities where they could commit new crimes.

In the first eight months of this year, immigration agents filed roughly 105,000 requests for local agencies to hold immigrants for up to 48 hours after they were eligible for release on the allegations for which they initially were arrested, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agents wanted the immigrants held so they could take them into federal custody and start deportation proceedings.

Local law enforcement agencies declined 8,800 such requests, also known as detainers, during the same period. Those released include people arrested for investigation of domestic violence and drug charges, as well as others detained on lesser offenses but who had past convictions for crimes such as assault with a deadly weapon, Kice said. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration

1 posted on 10/17/2014 5:18:52 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Unbelieveable.


2 posted on 10/17/2014 5:19:55 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It doesn’t matter. They could care less.

This is about the destruction of our nation.

If it works, don’t fix it. Releasing these prisoners works!


3 posted on 10/17/2014 5:21:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I don’t know which is worse, drunken illegal alien murderers wandering our roads and highways or Ebola infected aliens coming here for FREE “treatment”. Barry has “doubled down” on the American people.


4 posted on 10/17/2014 5:22:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Take them to the border and put them to work building the fence!
5 posted on 10/17/2014 5:23:47 PM PDT by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Bump


6 posted on 10/17/2014 5:40:53 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Guy at work got hit by an illegal. Illegal had no ID. Officer cut him loose. The feds have abandoned almost any effort to deport illegals.


7 posted on 10/17/2014 5:42:56 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: RIghtwardHo

No, totally believable. It’s called hope and change, we tried to warn them but minitrue ran cover for El-Presidente, just as they will bury this story. If they don’t cover it it didn’t happen.


8 posted on 10/17/2014 5:43:24 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

3,000 with previous felony charges or convictions.

How Tolerant of us!


9 posted on 10/17/2014 5:45:12 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I think we had a thread this week homeland insecurity said 167,000 illegal criminals wandering around the US.

The next governor of Cal 2018 will be Gavin newsome who let an illegal out of jail and he killed three in 1 family in SF.

The bear goes on.


10 posted on 10/17/2014 5:46:06 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: RIghtwardHo

I am sure this will be in the news.....all networks!


11 posted on 10/17/2014 5:51:16 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Oh, I’m sure they were checked for criminal records, infectious diseases, etc.... Right? Right!?


12 posted on 10/17/2014 6:13:49 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Maybe once the “We Elected the First Black President” has worn off, the people will elect someone who at least pretends to like America.


13 posted on 10/17/2014 6:15:20 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Hey media: how about reporting when these released illegals start KILLING PEOPLE?!

Obama is responsible for thousands of Willie Hortons....and the media? Well, will you report it?!

Wait until some child is killed or some poor woman raped and murdered......and then cover up the perp's illegal status.

Oh, it happens.

14 posted on 10/17/2014 7:18:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Nachum

In case you missed it.


15 posted on 10/17/2014 7:19:42 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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