| Broken Immigration Enforcement: One in Six Illegal Immigrants Re-Arrested |
| Jul-31-2012 |
| Keywords: congress, report, illegal immigrants, re-arrested, one in six, 15% |
One in six illegal immigrants will be re-arrested within three years.
Those are the findings of a new report from the House Judiciary Committee and the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, based on Department of Homeland Security records from October 2008 to July of last year.
The records show 276,412 reported charges against illegal and criminal immigrants over that three-year period as identified by Secure Communities, a federal program that essentially attempts to make best use of resources by identifying and prioritizing which illegal immigrants pose the biggest threat to public safety and should be arrested or deported.
Of the 160,000 people in the database, more than 26,000 were re-arrested -- accounting for nearly 58,000 crimes and violations.
They allegedly committed nearly 8,500 drunken-driving offenses and more than 6,000 drug-related violations. The records also show major criminal offenses, which included murder, battery, rape, kidnapping and nearly 3,000 thefts.
The report showed that more than 7,000 of those re-arrested were illegal immigrants. Among their charges were 19 murders, three attempted murders and 142 sex crimes.
"The Obama administration could have prevented these senseless crimes by enforcing our immigration laws," the committee chairman, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said. "But President Obama continues to further his anti-enforcement agenda while innocent Americans suffer the consequences."
Barbara Gonzalez, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said, many of the individuals cited in the report were not removable under current law or were released by local officials before ICE could respond. |
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