Last Year, ICE Released 19,000 Illegal Aliens Guilty of Committing a Crime

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(CNN) The Obama administration took fire at a House hearing Thursday for releasing back into society thousands of illegal immigrants who had committed crimes on U.S. soil – including those behind more than 200 murders.

“These are people that were here illegally, got caught committing a crime, were convicted of that crime and instead of deporting them, they were just released back out in the United States of America,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said.

According to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2015 “freed 19,723 criminal aliens, who had a total of 64,197 convictions among them.”

This included “8,234 violent convictions and 208 homicide convictions.”

ICE Director Sarah Saldana defended her agency, even characterizing the statistics as an improvement while claiming they were being politically manipulated.

“I can’t tell you how disheartening it is to hear a very important issue being bandied about as a political football,” Saldana said. “I would ask we focus on solutions rather than political banter.”

Saldana described the number of releases in 2015 as an improvement over prior years. The agency also made modest gains in detaining illegal immigrants but still released nearly 20,000 criminal offenders last year who had been convicted of crimes ranging from arson to embezzlement to sexual assault, according to the CIS report.

The report also said dozens of freed criminals were later charged with homicide as well. Among the murders detailed was that of Grant Ronnebeck, an Arizona convenience store clerk. He allegedly was killed over a pack of cigarettes by an illegal immigrant -- who had been facing deportation proceedings following a burglary charge, but was released on bond.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Saldana should be unceremoniously booted out the front door.

 

[waltky]

Hell No!...

New Ambassador Wants to Help Mexicans to Avoid Deportation After Committing Crimes
April 28, 2016 – Mexico’s new ambassador to Washington plans to make a top priority helping Mexicans living in the U.S. to get citizenship to avoid deportation if they commit crimes.

At a press conference last week Ambassador Carlos Manuel Sada Solana said obtaining citizenship “is a very important protection mechanism” for Mexican citizens with legal residence in the U.S. because without citizenship they could still be deported for criminal acts. “A lot of people think that just because they are legal residents they are not vulnerable to deportation and that’s not the case,” the ambassador said, in remarks later published on a government website. “Someone, in spite of being a legal resident, if they commit a crime tomorrow, they could be deported,” Sada said. “It’s not that way for someone who has citizenship.” The new envoy said there could be up to six million undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S.

Carlos Sada, Mexico's new ambassador to the U.S., speaks during a news conference in Mexico City​

The 49 Mexican consulates in the U.S., which provide services to Mexican citizens including assistance obtaining birth certificates and drivers licenses, do not ask whether a person is living legally in the U.S. “We never ask their immigration status,” Sada said. “For us, a Mexican is a Mexican in whatever location they find themselves in.” He noted that Mexico has a “well-developed reaction mechanism” for providing assistance to Mexicans facing deportation proceedings in the U.S. The goal is that “no Mexicans are deported and that the corresponding legal process is followed.” Sada’s appointment was unanimously approved by the Mexican Senate earlier this month. He replaces Miguel Basáñez Ebergenyi, who served for only seven months.

Some Mexican consulates in the U.S., with the help of outside groups, currently help Mexicans that want to obtain American citizenship, by providing space for citizenship promotion events. One such group, The New Americans’ Campaign United for Citizenship, notes on its website that “Consulates are trusted sources of immigration information and are prime locations for community-serving events, such as naturalization workshops. They also have community outreach staff and daily contact with hundreds of Mexican nationals.” In Texas, Catholic Charities of Dallas has held two naturalization workshops this year at the Mexican consulate in the city, according to Jenna Carl Jabara, the organization’s deputy director of immigration and legal services.

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Aren't fucking democrats wonderful?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Aren't fucking democrats wonderful?

They are apparently Mexicans.