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Federal Agents Release Hundreds Of Felons To Reduce Costs
This article was published 2 months 21 days ago which may make its actuality or accuracy no longer valid. Foxrio2.com is not responsible for any misunderstanding.After years of arresting illegal immigrants at the border and on the streets, federal agents charged with protecting the homeland are now *pinching* pennies – releasing hundreds of felons and non citizens already put behind bars. “The cost is ten dollars a day as opposed to 120 dollars a day when they are held in a detention facility,” says Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, (D-CA)
In a statement Tuesday, immigration and customs enforcement claims potential budget cuts mandated by the sequester prompted the release of some 300 inmates in Arizona alone on Saturday and perhaps more later.
“As ICE made clear, the agency released low risk detainees to ensure detention levels stayed within budget.” Jay Carney, white house press secretary.
ICE currently holds some 30,000 criminal non citizens in prisons around the country, 4,000 *fewer*than mandated by congress. Latino advocates long criticized jail detention as inhumane, and pressured the agency to develop alternatives. Today several republican congressmen accused the administration of using the sequester to justify the illegal’s release
It’s a policy that’s soft on illegal immigration. It’s a policy they want to effectuate. They want to use sequestration as a guise to get that policy done. And again, I think it’s a reckless one,” rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX),chairman house homeland security committee.
In a letter today, congressman McCaul asked ice where and how many detainees it planned to release, along with their criminal records. “The detainees in question are not dangerous criminals. They pose no risk to society.” says Allard. Cops say otherwise. “Theft, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault,” Paul Babeu, Arizona sheriff. Arizona sheriff Paul Babeu says the inmates released into his county are anything but non violent. He fears many will reoffend and disappear. “This idea of supervised release is laughable these are multiple border crossers – they couldn’t stop them at the an international border how on earth are they going to provide supervised release and supervision over these criminals,” Babeu says. ICE claims the detainees while free – are not supposed to leave and must promise to show up in court. Some are required to call in and others may wear an ankle bracelet. In Los Angeles, William Lajeunesse, Fox news.
16 Responses to “Federal Agents Release Hundreds Of Felons To Reduce Costs”
MARIJUANA IS A NON VIOLENT CRIME, WHY NOT RELEASE SOME OF THESE FOLKS AND SAVE THE GOVERMENT MONEY…{our money}
This story reads like a virulent blog rant, not journalism. The punctuation is at a third grade level, and the statements are more slanted opinions than facts. I’m surprised FOX claims it. . .
they should use this to bring jobs back from the sweatshops. Jail should be free or cheep labor. Wouldn’t have to release them if we can offset the costs of housing them with their own money.. just a thought.
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Paul Babeau, sheriff of Pinal County, said in an interview, “These are aliens with felony convictions, who have been released into my county.”
“These people should have been released a long time ago,” said Sarah Lanius, a spokeswoman for No More Deaths, a non-profit group in Tucson that runs free legal clinics for illegal immigrants. “They were stopped in silly traffic cases or other situations, and they have no business being put through all this.” Lindsay Marshall, executive director of a group called the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, echoed this opinion.
So, what’s the truth?
An ICE spokeswoman in Phoenix said in a statement that the releases were carried out because of “fiscal uncertainty” over budget cuts and … that “priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders who pose a significant threat to public safety.”
That certainly makes sense and is most likely the way this went down. Leave it to FOX to come up with a completely misleading headline:
“FEDERAL AGENTS RELEASE HUNDREDS OF FELONS TO REDUCE COSTS”
LIARS!!!
“[ICE] also said that all of the detainees who have been released can be characterized as non-criminals or low-risk offenders who do not have serious criminal histories that would subject them to mandatory detention. Detainees with serious criminal histories are a detention priority and have not been released, ICE officials said.”
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20130227ice-halts-release-detainees.html
“all…non-criminals and low-risk offenders” doesn’t sound like “releasing hundreds of felons”
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Now we know the FIRST Federal employees to fire don’t we? – Throw those idiots under the bus!!!!
What a bunch of idiots – I expect them to pay for it by eliminating excessive manager and politician salaries, pensions, and converting all of them to Social Security, self-funded IRA’s, and Obamacare
It is one thing to have an opinion and another thing to get your facts wrong.
“ICE currently holds some 30,000 criminal non citizens in prisons around the country.” – This is factually and legally inaccurate. People in immigration detention are not serving time for a crime. They are being held in civil immigration detention, and these individuals include asylum seekers and victims of sex trafficking with no prior criminal convictions.
Violating an immigration law is NOT a crime–U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has the authority to detain people in what is supposed to be a civil immigration system. Many of these people in immigration detention don’t even have past criminal records. Although the system is supposed to be civil, ICE contracts with county jails and for-profit prisons to hold people. As they are not in criminal custody, people in immigration detention (many of whom are applying for asylum or are actually victims of sex trafficking) have no right to a court appointed attorney. 84% have to represent themselves before an immigration judge. There also is no time limit for how long a person can be held in immigration detention. Human Rights Watch found people in immigration detention with no past criminal convictions for 10 years!
Check this Information out from the American Bar Association: http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/immigration/abaimmdetstds.authcheckdam.pdf
“The immigration detention and removal system is, by law, a civil system. The persons within this system are not awaiting criminal trials or serving prison sentences….”
Here’s a good report from a law school in New York:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/opinion/sunday/deportation-without-representation.html?ref=immigrationdetentionus
This is just a good infographic about this system:
http://www.endisolation.org/why-we-visit/
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lemme get this straight…
So our JOBS AND PRODUCTS can go freely between borders…
…but the people who work them CAN’T???
And you still call them CRIMINAL? for wanting to work at a job???
DAMN! I wish we had more of those kind of criminals!
ITS THE LAW THATS SCREWED UP… If jobs can move freely, so should people.. period.
They couldn’t be released in their country of origin?
LOL no they couldnt “be released in their country of origin.” They’re not wild ducks being put back into the wild. What you’re asking for is to have them deported. Well, that costs MONEY. If we had the money, we wouldnt be releasing them. lamest comment ive seen tonight, seriously.
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