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DHS broke law in releasing hundreds of criminal aliens: Audit
The Washington Times ^ | August 12, 2014 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 08/12/2014 10:59:07 AM PDT by jazusamo

The Obama administration broke the law when it released thousands of illegal immigrants, more than 600 of whom had criminal records, last February as a result of poor planning and micromanagement from Washington, according to an internal audit released Tuesday that says things have not improved in the 18 months since.

Compounding matters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gave bad information to Congress, initially blaming the looming budget sequester, rather than the agency's own budget pressures, the Homeland Security inspector general concluded.

In the new report the IG does clear top Homeland Security officials of accusations they pressured ICE to do the releases in order to create more pain from the sequesters. Instead, investigators said the problems lay at the senior levels of ICE, itself, finding that top officials botched planning, didn't inform their own superiors of the problems, and didn't even know the law required them to hold 34,000 immigrants a day until they were reminded of it by congressional staffers.

"In this single action, ICE undermined its own credibility, the rule of law, and the safety of Americans and local law enforcement," said Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who requested the report along with Sen. John McCain. "This report provides more evidence that our nation's immigration laws are being flagrantly disregarded. Americans need to be assured the problems within ICE that led to the dangerous release of illegal aliens will be fixed and DHS and ICE will never again violate the law by releasing known criminals into our streets."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; criminals; dhs; getoutofjailfree; homelandsecurity; ice; ig; illegals; illegalscriminals; immigration; obama; obamagotbergdahl; obamalawless; releases
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What a mess...This administration is so messed up our law enforcement agencies don't know the laws or just choose to ignore them.
1 posted on 08/12/2014 10:59:07 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

and who will be held accountable?


2 posted on 08/12/2014 11:00:28 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: jazusamo

Up is down.....good is bad....black is white....morality is immorality.....we are FINISHED as a country.


3 posted on 08/12/2014 11:00:55 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jazusamo

There is no law anymore, just confiscatory taxes under the guise of financial penalty and fines (revenue tickets).


4 posted on 08/12/2014 11:03:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: a fool in paradise

There is no law anymore

Not true; the law still applies to Conservatives, just not to the libs.


5 posted on 08/12/2014 11:05:07 AM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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To: jazusamo

Oh ,look , another member of the OCG(Obama Criminal Group)shows he’s a total failure at the job


6 posted on 08/12/2014 11:05:25 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: jazusamo

Uh... okay. Now whose going to round up those responsible and arrest them? If the law’s been broken, then the next step is to actually enforce the law, correct? /s


7 posted on 08/12/2014 11:08:37 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: jazusamo
The Obama administration broke the law when it released thousands of illegal immigrants

The law? We don't need no stinking law. Our Glorious Leader is the law!

8 posted on 08/12/2014 11:08:56 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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9 posted on 08/12/2014 11:10:54 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“Our Glorious Leader is the law!”

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Only because the Congress does nothing to stop it.


10 posted on 08/12/2014 11:11:15 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Bubba_Leroy

The Obama Criminal Group broke the law when it released thousands of illegal immigrants


11 posted on 08/12/2014 11:11:43 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: jazusamo

The EXEMPT again have declared WAR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
with rapists, murderers, terrorists, tuberculosis and Ebola.

And there is no accountability. or Truth.

This cannot end well.


12 posted on 08/12/2014 11:12:18 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: bigbob

“and who will be held accountable?”

That is the question. Of course the msm will cover this story up. Can’t hurt Barry can we.


13 posted on 08/12/2014 11:12:37 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: jazusamo

The DHS didn’t break the law, individuals did. So when will they be arrested?


14 posted on 08/12/2014 11:13:41 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Ann Archy

“we are FINISHED as a country.”

Isn’t that the same as being fundamentally transformed?


15 posted on 08/12/2014 11:15:39 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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DHS broke law in releasing hundreds of criminal aliens: Audit

This will continue until those responsible are handcuffed, perp-walked and locked up!

16 posted on 08/12/2014 11:17:36 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want a Speaker who'll stick that pen and phone where no one but Reggie Love can find it!)
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To: jazusamo

Someone at ICE who signed off on this crime should be indicted for flagrantly endangering Americans. Why don’t senators Coburn and McCain follow through? Congressman Issa does the same thing when dealing with the government liars who cover up Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and the IRS crimes.

These people have repeatedly lied to Congress and nothing has happened to them. Scooter Libby gave the FBI incomplete information and spent almost three years in prison in connection with the bogus Valerie Plame farce that so scandalized the media. No wonder Democrats laugh at the laws that we peons are required to obey.


17 posted on 08/12/2014 11:20:02 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: freedomfiter2
The DHS didn’t break the law, individuals did. So when will they be arrested?

In the year 2525.

18 posted on 08/12/2014 11:20:02 AM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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To: The Sons of Liberty

You’re exactly right and it won’t happen in this administration.


19 posted on 08/12/2014 11:20:05 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: EagleUSA

Our Constitutional government was structured in such a way that one branch has the power to reign in any of the other branches that goes rogue. That power has been exercised many times in the past. There is existing federal law for this provision.

This current Congress has chosen not to exercise their Constitutional authority and as such, there is no constraint on the executive branch.

And here we are.


20 posted on 08/12/2014 11:20:14 AM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is the CPUSA)
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