In what is already fast becoming the latest flashpoint in the debate over allowing millions more illegal immigrants to remain in the United States legally, a government watchdog agency found that U.S. immigration officials released more than 600 undocumented immigrants in 2013 when faced with across-the-board budget cuts.
The Homeland Security Department’s
inspector general
released a report late Tuesday that found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement made
the decision to release the criminals in order to cover the expected cuts from
the sequester and budget impasse on Capitol
Hill and free up detention bed space. The report said the ICE officials tried
to differentiate between criminals who posed an ongoing threat from those
convicted of lighter crimes, and released only those they believed weren’t a
danger to society.
The
release of the immigrants with criminal convictions breaks a federal law that
requires them to be detained. The
IG report found that senior ICE officials did not have the permission of DHS leadership or the White House
and did not inform them of their plans to release the criminals……To Read More…..
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