ICE: Catch-and-Release
More than half of a million – that’s how many illegal aliens the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) says it has released, who are now fugitives: 506,232 as of Sept. 5, to be precise, according to this report from CNSNews:
Fugitive illegal aliens are individuals who were apprehended ICE for being in the United States illegally and then were released ahead of their court proceedings and deemed fugitive when they failed to appear in court.
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In an e-mail to CNSNews.com, Hale said the fugitive backlog as of Oct. 1, 2009 (the first day of FY 2010) was 534,497. He also said that number had been reduced by 28,265 since then, making the total fugitive backlog of illegal aliens 506,232 as of Sept. 5, 2010.
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Hale said that ICE personnel are spending more time arresting criminal illegal aliens rather than fugitive illegal aliens.
I’d be considerably more impressed by Hale’s comments if I had any degree of confidence that those same criminal illegal aliens ICE is arresting aren’t eventually winding their way back onto the streets.
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