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WHAT IS THE GOP DOING ABOUT OBAMA RELEASING FROM FEDERAL CUSTODY ILLEGAL ALIEN FELONS INTO THE US POPULACE RATHER THAN DEPORTING THEM?

WHAT IS HE TRYING TO DO, GET MORE US CITIZENS RAPED, MURDERED AND KIDNAPPED?

The Non-Deported: ICE Still Releasing Criminal Aliens at a Rapid Pace

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published an investigative report on violent criminals released by ICE. Aptly titled “Convicted, but free to roam: Giving little notice, federal authorities have released thousands of detained undeportable immigrants — sometimes with grave results”, the article tells the story of a rapist and a murderer turned loose by ICE. Such criminal alien releases are continuing at an alarming pace in 2015.

According to documents provided to the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing last month, ICE released 30,558 convicted criminal aliens in FY 2014. These individuals had been convicted of 79,059 crimes, including 175 homicides, 373 sexual assaults, 186 kidnappings, and 14,014 impaired driving offenses (see the listing of conviction categories here).

As of the end of March, ICE had released another 10,246 criminal aliens. This pace of criminal releases is down from 2013 and 2014 — but only because ICE is arresting far fewer people to start with, not because there are fewer to arrest. ICE arrests of criminal aliens are down 32 percent since this time last year, according to ICE records. Arrests of the most serious offenders are down by 22 percent over last year.

The newspaper’s report focuses almost entirely on cases in which the criminal aliens were released because their home countries would not accept them back. These are known as “Zadvydas” cases, after the Supreme Court decision on the issue.

But according to ICE records, only 2,457 (8 percent) of the 30,558 convicted criminal releases in 2014 were Zadvydas cases. The majority of convicted criminal releases occurred because of Obama administration policies that require ICE officers to let the offenders go. In some cases, judges will allow aliens to be released after a bond hearing, but the conditions are usually set by ICE, and ICE attorneys say that they have been instructed not to vigorously contest an alien’s request for release.

http://cis.org/vaughan/non-deported-ice-still-releasing-criminal-aliens