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Officials in Virginia are pointing out that hundreds of illegal aliens they had caught and turned over to ICE for processing and deportation, are being found loose in public again. Many are arrested for subsequennt crimes.
How many of them were simply released by ICE, with a "Notice to Appear" that they promptly threw in a trash can before disappearing into U.S. neighborhoods?
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Virginia County Official Wants to Know Whereabouts of Undocumented Immigrant Criminals | NBC4 Washington
Virginia County Official Wants to Know Whereabouts of Undocumented Immigrant Criminals
By Julie Carey
Wednesday, Jul 9, 2014
Updated 8:59 AM EDT
A county in Virginia hopes to turn up the pressure on federal immigration officials to reveal more details about undocumented criminals referred by the county for action.
Late Tuesday, supervisors in Prince William County voted to allow the county attorney to file a freedom of information act request to U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, asking ICE for the location of almost 7,000 undocumented immigrants who were arrested in the county and then turned over to ICE. The county leaders are frustrated that ICE won't tell them where the arrested immigrants are -- and if they are deported, or freed.
"I think the public has a right to know what their federal government has done with dangerous criminal illegal aliens that a local government has handed over to them for deportation," said Chairman Corey Stewart, who helped lead a crackdown in 2007 on undocumented immigrants who committed crimes in the county.
Since the crackdown in 2007, more than 6,300 undocumented immigrants have been arrested and referred to federal officials for action, but Stewart complains that 773 -- more than 10 percent -- wound up back in the county and were arrested for new crimes. "This is a law enforcement issue, a public safety issue about finding the whereabouts of people that are very dangerous," Stewart said.
Some residents back up the call for information. Outside the Chinn Park Regional Library, Toni Kelly said she doesn't think undocumented criminals deserve special privacy protection. "I think once they've served their time, their names should be on the list just like if you were in the United States," Kelly said. "I don't think they should be exempt because they are less legal."
How many of them were simply released by ICE, with a "Notice to Appear" that they promptly threw in a trash can before disappearing into U.S. neighborhoods?
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Virginia County Official Wants to Know Whereabouts of Undocumented Immigrant Criminals | NBC4 Washington
Virginia County Official Wants to Know Whereabouts of Undocumented Immigrant Criminals
By Julie Carey
Wednesday, Jul 9, 2014
Updated 8:59 AM EDT
A county in Virginia hopes to turn up the pressure on federal immigration officials to reveal more details about undocumented criminals referred by the county for action.
Late Tuesday, supervisors in Prince William County voted to allow the county attorney to file a freedom of information act request to U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, asking ICE for the location of almost 7,000 undocumented immigrants who were arrested in the county and then turned over to ICE. The county leaders are frustrated that ICE won't tell them where the arrested immigrants are -- and if they are deported, or freed.
"I think the public has a right to know what their federal government has done with dangerous criminal illegal aliens that a local government has handed over to them for deportation," said Chairman Corey Stewart, who helped lead a crackdown in 2007 on undocumented immigrants who committed crimes in the county.
Since the crackdown in 2007, more than 6,300 undocumented immigrants have been arrested and referred to federal officials for action, but Stewart complains that 773 -- more than 10 percent -- wound up back in the county and were arrested for new crimes. "This is a law enforcement issue, a public safety issue about finding the whereabouts of people that are very dangerous," Stewart said.
Some residents back up the call for information. Outside the Chinn Park Regional Library, Toni Kelly said she doesn't think undocumented criminals deserve special privacy protection. "I think once they've served their time, their names should be on the list just like if you were in the United States," Kelly said. "I don't think they should be exempt because they are less legal."
