The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency’s Out-of-Control ‘Catch & Release’ Policy
**Written by Doug Powers
Due to the fact that the Obama administration has been doing its best to put critics of immigration enforcement into key positions at Immigrations and Customs, news like this is hardly surprising:
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) says that as of Sunday, Sept. 5, it had caught-and-released 506,232 illegal aliens who are now fugtives. That is more than the population of Sacramento, California, which currently numbers 486,189.
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.
I’m sure most of these “undocumented Democrats” will somehow magically be found sometime just before election day.
Besides, those jail cells have to remain open just in case we need them for the real criminals, like Jan Brewer, Joe Arpaio and anybody else who dares enforce the law.
**Written by Doug Powers
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This won’t stop until one of the political elites is killed by an criminal illegal.
Hearing news like this makes American’s more and more determined to get people elected in Nov. to stop these illegal aliens. This ice bunch, and I have read many do not agree with what is going on, needs to be defunded! The states need to do the same AZ/fed thing for their citizens. Fed up is an understatement for me with this mess!
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This won’t stop until the leftist pols and bureaucrats are booted out or until they have complete ironfisted control of the nation.
This is just another element in the overall plan for our leftists in charge…where there is chaos, there is opportunity.
Perhaps more than anything else, the failure of Bush/Frist/Hastert to secure the border after 9/11 was their biggest mistake.
Well at least we know where most of them are – build a fence around Sacramento!
That’s more than the entire state of Wyoming. Keep em in Sacramento.
Who was the first idiot bureaucrat that suggested that an illegal would show up in court if they let them go? and how many of them agreed that it was a good idea?
Boggles the mind.
When did they start counting?
Is that for the week ending Sep 5?
Since Obummer took office?
Since ICE was created?
And, I’m assuming that, much like bugs, for every one you catch, there are 10 that get away.
Can’t they tag them before they release them?
Through the nose? Through the ear? Lip?
They’re only fugitives if someone’s looking for them, of course, and Obama and his minions are not looking.
Errah, does that go hand in hand with last weeks statement that apprehensions are downs. If they don’t look then the problem goes away, right??!!
wasn’t the guy who killed Robert Kennedy in the country illegally?
walterc#6,
We have that number of illegals here in TX as the population of your state! I don’t think they are all criminals though. Wow!
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So Obama’s auntie, living on the public dole, was/is a fugitive, right??
Head of ICE (in whinny liberal voice): “Hey no fair, they promised they would come back.”
If the fascists/socialists/America-destroyers continue in power, how long before such statistics that are
unfavorable to the fascists/socialists/America-destroyers are manipulated/changed so that they are unrecognizable; or are outright banned from being published,…or even from being collected in the first place?
No, they will claim that Glenn Beck or Michelle Malkin or Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter or some other ‘racist xenophobic tea partier type’ .. drove them over the edge and they finally just couldn’t take it anymore.
No matter what happens, no matter who does the injuring or killing, no matter who gets injured or killed – the left is going to blame YOU just because it happened.
(Didn’t the left’s spin of eco-bomber at the Discovery Channel teach you anything?)
Does everybody working at ICE think they’re Gaddabout Gaddis? Stop treating it like trout fishing! Catch and release my horse’s patooty! What a bunch of poinyoins!
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Just have ICE turn over the “undocumented” (aka ILLEGAL) immigrants to sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona. He’s got lots of tents–and will be happy to do the jobs our Department of (social!) Justice won’t do.
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Auntie Obama would have looked good in pink. And the warmer Arizona climate might have been better for her medical problems that those cold Boston winters were. And it would have been a win for the Boston taxpayers. Sheriff Joe works cheap.
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John Bibb
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A blast from the past!
I don’t think I’ve seen that name for decades.
Heh. After I posted I said to myself nobody is going to get that one. I spent a summer out in Oregon at age 12 where my UncleJohn would take me fly-fishing on the Deschutes River. He was always bragging about how he was better than Gaddabout Gaddis (One of the earlist TV fishing shows that I remember). That was one of my best summer ever.
Maybe they should have been required to post bail like any other criminal that we process in our “rule of law country”. At a $1000 a crack, forfeited bail would have generated $500,000,000. It would even be a job creator as “Dog” would have to hire more guys to keep up with the volume. Dog don’t do no catch and release.
Even the dumbest among us would realize a policy is not working long before a half million fugatives have absconded while thumbing their noses at our laws. Did any of the officials in charge of enforcing immigration laws take an oath of office? Why is there no penalty for those who refuse to perform the duties of their office that they swore to faithfully execute?
Instead of going after people like Joe Arpaio for enforcing our laws, how about we prosecute the people in the Obama administration who willfully refuse to enforce them.
The word “criminal” is redundant.
Just sayin’.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force! I propose we adopt Mexico’s immigration laws and enforce them just like the Mexican government does. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ECS
506,232. Wow, that’s one hell of a Democrat vote base!
I could find every one of them without breaking a sweat.
Just check the registered Democrat voter lists.
These are the illegals that this Administration has deemed “low priority;” to name a few: illegals caught by state or local law enforcement who are “only” illegal, or arrested for traffic or “minor” crimes; some who who ask for political asylum hearings; illegal students; pregnant or nursing mothers; families arrested in the company of their minor children, or US citizen children; many illegals with medical issues; illegal juveniles; illegals not convicted of a crime, or have been convicted of “minor” crimes; and illegals caught in an area that lacks enough or even “suitable” jail facilities (since many jail contracts are being terminated as “unsuitable” to house illegals awaiting deportation). These are but a few classes of illegals the immigrant advocate-dominated Administration beleives are entitled to be released and trusted to show up for their hearings.
Of course, in addition to this “re-prioritizing ” of which illegals should be detained for deportation, or even arrested or turned over to ICE at all, this Administration is taking care of this issue by simply dismissing existing court cases or not allowing court cases to go forward, wich simply returns them to their original illegal status. Because then they won’t have a court date to potentially miss; won’t then get a deportation order, and then they won’t be “fugitives”. Brilliant, huh?
Catch – anywhere
Release – in Washington DC
Let the illegals swarm the White House like they do at the local Home Depot parking lot.
I think the republican strategy should be to defund any gubmint department which doesn’t enforce the laws of the U.S. they are charged with enforcing. So if ICE isn’t enforcing our laws, PINKSLIP THEM AND SHUT THE DEPARTMENT DOWN! I bet after that a new attitude would take hold. Reagan and the air traffic controllers. Do your job, or we will find someone who will.