ICE Director says no one fired for releasing 65,000 criminal aliens onto streets

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As Twitchy reported earlier today, testimony from a House Oversight hearing on a massive security compromise of federal computer systems led a number of people to ask just what it would take for a federal employee to be fired, or at the very least shamed into resigning. Office of Personnel Management director Katherine Archuleta was reportedly offered chances to apologize and resign but “declined to do either.”

This afternoon, House subcommittees on national security and on health care, benefits, and administrative rules met to discuss President Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration, which allowed illegal aliens to apply for deferred action status, which protected them from deportation and authorized them to work legally in the United States. Those aliens would then be eligible to obtain Social Security numbers and other government benefits.

Among those to testify was U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Sarah Saldaña, and Townhall editor Katie Pavlich also makes the case that it’s high time for some high-level government firings.

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Senators Want Answers: 121 Illegal Immigrants Avoid Deportation, Now Charged With Murder

More than 100 convicted criminals who remained in the U.S. despite receiving deportation orders between 2010 and 2014 now face murder charges, according to the agency charged with carrying out such deportations of illegal immigrants.

U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement reports that 121 convicted criminals who were never removed from the country face murder charges today.

In response, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., of the Judiciary Committee submitted a letter on June 12 requesting a “multi-departmental response” from Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of State John Kerry and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

In their letter, Grassley and Sessions cite Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics that show 1,000 of the 36,007 criminally-convicted illegal immigrants released from custody in fiscal year 2013 have been re-convicted of additional crimes.

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Enforcement? What Enforcement?

Three recent items highlight the continuing collapse of interior immigration enforcement under Obama. The first is information pried out of DHS by Senators Grassley and Sessions: One hundred twenty-one convicted criminals who faced deportation orders between 2010 and 2014 were never removed from the country and now face murder charges, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Just to be clear, these were convicted criminals, in ICE custody, who had been ordered deported but were instead released back into U.S. communities, and then went on to murder Americans. Most were released simply because the administration didn’t want to detain them. Only for two dozen does the administration have any excuse at all, saying that they had to be released because their home countries wouldn’t take them back.

And even that’s no excuse, for two reasons: the Supreme Court decision Obama’s people point to (Zadvydas v. Davis) limiting open-ended detention beyond six months of any criminal aliens whose countries won’t take them back has significant wiggle room in it – wiggle room the administration refuses, in this one and only instance, to take advantage of. And second, the law requires the State Department to impose visa sanctions on countries that won’t take their own citizens back, a requirement Secretaries Clinton and Kerry have simply ignored.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/419905/enforcement-what-enforcement-mark-krikorian?target=author&tid=982

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Feds: 5K immigrant detainees in Arizona have criminal records

PHOENIX -- Nearly 5,000 Arizona immigrant detainees with criminal records were released from custody, a federal agency has acknowledged.

Of those, 121 later committed fatal crimes.

The National Review reported that the Department of Homeland Security said that the detainees charged with murder had been jailed and let out from 2010 to 2014.

A letter from the director of Immigrations and Customs, Sarah Saldana, to U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley was recently made public.

The senators asked asked for details surrounding the release of Valley resident Apolinar Altamirano, who was charged with the shooting death of a Mesa convenience store clerk in January. Altamirano was awaiting a deportation hearing.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement had taken Altamirano into custody in January 2013 after he was convicted on burglary charges.

He was later determined eligible for bail.

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34 convicted aliens arrested statewide during immigration enforcement

MADISON, Wis. -
Thirty-four people arrested in Wisconsin after a monthlong initiative by immigration officials to arrest and deport convicted aliens, according to a release.

Attack on Madison man at bar likely due to owing money
Two hundred eighty convicted criminal aliens were arrested in six Midwest states during a monthlong initiative that ended Saturday, officials said.

The enforcement operation started May 18, and is the latest effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations to prioritize the arrest and removal of convicted criminal aliens, according to the release. The arrests were made in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas and Missouri.

The 280 people arrested are from 22 countries and their convictions include aggravated battery, armed robbery, drug possession, burglary, aggravated drunken driving, illegal possession of a weapon by a felon, battery, hit-and-run and drug trafficking.

ICE officers arrested 34 men in Wisconsin during the initiatives; 33 of them are Mexican nationals and one is from Ecuador, officials said.

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MEXICO DEPORTS MORE CENTRAL AMERICANS THAN THE UNITED STATES

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico now deports more Central American migrants than the United States, a dramatic shift since the U.S. asked Mexico for help a year ago with a spike in illegal migration, especially among unaccompanied minors.

Between October and April, Mexico apprehended 92,889 Central Americans. In the same time period, the United States detained 70,226 "other than Mexican" migrants, the vast majority from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

That was a huge reversal from the same period a year earlier, when the wave of migrants and unaccompanied minors from Central America was building. From October 2013 to April 2014, the United States apprehended 159,103 "other than Mexicans," three times the 49,893 Central Americans detained by Mexico.

The difference is Mexico's new Southern Border Program, an initiative that included sending 5,000 federal police to the border with Guatemala and more border and highway checkpoints. Raids on migrants increased and authorities focused on keeping migrants off the northbound freight train known as "the Beast," on which many have suffered mutilation injuries.

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Technical glitch cripples US government visa system

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The US government’s visa system, crippled by a technical glitch, will not be back up and running until next week, forcing thousands of business travellers and others to postpone or cancel travel plans.

The State department said a hardware failure on June 9 was preventing it from processing and transmitting the mandatory, security-related biometric data checks routinely carried out at embassies and consulates.

“This is a global issue and we’re working around the clock to fix it,” said John Kirby, a State department spokesman. No evidence indicated that the problem was related to cyber security.

But Mr Kirby said he did not expect the system to be back “online before next week. I can’t give you any more specific detail with respect to timing on that.”

The glitch is having a knock-on affect for those people who have already submitted their documents because their passports have become locked up in the system.

Documents are normally returned within four to five working days. But after the system went down applicants who needed their passports for other foreign travel have struggled to retrieve their documents.

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