The Obama administration is threatening public safety by deliberately
hampering immigration law and releasing aliens with criminal records,
according to a new review of internal Immigration and Customs
Enforcement data.
A Center for Immigration study to be released Monday and
obtained in advance by The Daily Caller, found that last year ICE
reported nearly 722,000 encounters with illegal or criminal immigrants.
But ICE officers filed immigration charges against less than 195,000
aliens.
“According to ICE personnel, the vast gap between the
number of encounters reported and the number of aliens put on the path
to removal exists because officers are not permitted to file charges
against aliens who do not fall into the administration’s narrowly
defined criteria for enforcement, regardless of the criminal charges or
the circumstances in which the alien was identified,” the report,
authored by CIS director of policy studies Jessica Vaughan, reads.
Since June 2011, when the first of the Obama
administration’s “prosecutorial discretion” policies were put in place,
the report adds, interior ICE arrests have declined by 40 percent.
“The Obama administration and anti-enforcement activist
groups have tried to portray the number of departures as
‘record-breaking’ and indicative of robust immigration enforcement. They
have tried to support this claim by showing that the number of
departures credited to ICE is higher than ever before,” the report
reads. “However, an independent analysis of ICE records obtained in a
lawsuit showed that ICE was able to achieve these ‘record’ departures
only because the agency was taking credit for removing a large number of
individuals who were apprehended by the Border Patrol. Such cases made
up the majority of ICE’s reported deportations in 2013, but they had
never been counted that way in previous administrations.”
Indeed, as the review highlights, many aliens with criminal convictions have simply been released.
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