Posted on 02/04/2016 9:36:33 AM PST by Hojczyk
"The willful failure to show up for court appearances by persons that were arrested and released by the Border Patrol has become an extreme embarrassment for the Department of Homeland Security.
It has been so embarrassing that DHS and the U.S. Attorney's office has come up with a new policy," he testified before the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee.
The biggest change: Undocumented immigrants are no longer given a "notice to appear" order, because they simply ignore them. Judd said that Border agents jokingly refer to the NTAs as "notices to disappear."
He said the the new policy "makes mandatory the release, without an NTA, of any person arrested by the Border Patrol for being in the country illegally, as long as they do not have a previous felony arrest conviction and as long as they claim to have been continuously in the United States since January of 2014.
The operative word in this policy is 'claim.' The policy does not require the person to prove they have been here which is the same burden placed on them during deportation proceedings. Instead, it simply requires them to claim to have been here since January of 2014."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Meanwhile Cubans are crossing the southern border at record levels.
Detained ? Returned ?
Not a chance. They are processed and given “food stamps, medical care, and enough cash for 8 monthsâ€.
But even then, he added, the agency has been told not to track the illegals.
“Not only do we release these individuals that by law are subject to removal proceedings, we do it without any means of tracking their whereabouts. Agents believe this exploitable policy was set in place because DHS was embarrassed at the sheer number of those who choose not to follow the law by showing up for their court appearances. In essence, we pull these persons out of the shadows and into the light just to release them right back to those same shadows from whence they came,” he said.
Cubans have benefitted from a “dry foot” immigration policy ever since we broke relations with Castro in the 60’s.
You’re Cuban, you show up with one foot on dry US soil, you’re In Like Flint.
They are now gang-rushing in because since Obama has restored relations with Cuba they fear this will end soon.
Are the Supremes going to hear a case regarding Obama on this point.
Abolishing the border? But of course! Its the plan.
Rubio will do just tgat. IF he gets past the killer rabbit Hillary, which he will NOT
May as well. The “Rule of Law” no longer exists in the United States.
This has been pretty much going on for six years, at least. A close friend retired from ICE a couple of years ago.
He had been telling me about it for years. He had become quite cynical and disillusioned.
Open borders an executive amnesty is the liberal’s “nuclear option” this next election. Meanwhile, conservatives are fighting about “temperment”...
It’s not an embarrassment to democrat and republican politicians.....
It’s a feature.
I am sure that is probably next on the agenda with this bunch in the WH and congress.
This has been going on since Ike left the White House.
Ho hum. Another day another act of treason.
Do we really want a man from a Cuban family from Canada as president?
Hasn’t the foreign born, Muslim loving pos we have elected twice taught anybody any thing?
I want an American who loves his country in power.
And what about this?
If current trend holds, the number of Cubans seeking entry through Laredo will be about 24,700 this fiscal year. That’s about 60 percent more than 2014’s 15,600 and nearly twice as many as 2013’s 12,445.
The influx of Cubans to Texas is a result of the Obama administration’s efforts to normalize relations with the communist Castro regime, said Marc Rosenblum, deputy director of the U.S. Immigration Policy program at the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
Obama’s Ordering the border guards to stand down and let illegals in from S America and Cuba assures Democratic vote to keep them in power from now on- not to mention the billions of dollars it cost to take care of them.
I’m sure most Cubans are good people, but we need to take care of our own first. Our elders and veterans, to name just a few, are suffering. Our hiways and bridges are falling apart.
We are 19 Trillion dollars in debt.
We cannot take care of the whole world.
How does Cruz feel about THIS?
“The “Rule of Law” no longer exists “
Not for the undocumented immigrants, the Occupy protesters or Black Lives Matter.
But it does if you are a tax-paying, privileged white Honky/ofay, like me.
“the agency has been told not to track the illegals.”
Where is the text of the order? Who signed it?
Dear Lord! Are we even going to make it to November?!
Are the Supremes going to hear a case regarding Obama on this point.
America needs a permanent solution to the problem
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