"American citizens have a legal and moral right to the
protections our immigration laws afford-at the border, the interior and the workplace.
The Administration has stripped these protections... [Its] lawless policies
have not only impaired public safety but increased economic suffering for
millions of vulnerable Americans by depriving them of their jobs and wages...
Congressional Democrats continue to empower this lawlessness. Republicans must
work to end it."
WASHINGTON-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member
of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Budget
Committee, issued the following statement today concerning a new DHS document
showing that tens of thousands of convicted criminal aliens were freed by ICE
last year into the U.S., as well as the presence of nearly one million
individuals in the U.S. ordered removed by authorities who remain unlawfully in
the country, many of them as fugitives and absconders:
"The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that
immigration enforcement in America has collapsed. Even those with criminal
convictions are being released. DHS is a department in crisis. Secretary
Johnson must reject the President's demands to weaken enforcement further and
tell him that his duty, and his officers' duty, is to enforce the law-not break
it. As Homeland Secretary, Mr. Johnson is tasked with ensuring the public
safety and the rule of law. But Secretary Johnson is not meeting these duties.
American citizens have a legal and moral right to the
protections our immigration laws afford-at the border, the interior and the
workplace. The Administration has stripped these protections and adopted a
government policy that encourages new arrivals to enter illegally or overstay
visas by advertising immunity from future enforcement. Comments from top
Administration officials, such as Attorney General Holder's claim that amnesty
is a civil right, or Vice President Biden's claim that those here illegally are
all U.S. citizens (apparently including someone whose visa expired yesterday),
demonstrate the Administration's increasing belief in an open borders policy
the American public has always rejected.
The Administration's lawless policies have not only impaired
public safety but increased economic suffering for millions of vulnerable
Americans by depriving them of their jobs and wages.
Unfortunately, Congressional Democrats continue to empower
this lawlessness. Republicans must work to end it."
BACKGROUND:
DHS considers an individual to be a criminal alien only if
they have a criminal conviction (excluding traffic offenses) so the actual
number of non-citizens with criminal records released is even larger than the
document reveals. Those released by ICE include those with numerous arrests and
multiple convictions. In some cities, nearly half of all criminal aliens
encountered were released. In some, more than half were released. Overall, there
was nearly a 30% drop from 2012 in the number of charging documents issued. Of
ICE's entire caseload, less than 2% were in detention at the end of FY2013.
Approximately 870,000 aliens ordered removed had not departed. Roughly 3 in 4
non-citizens encountered were released for one reason or another.
Source: Jeff Sessions, March 31, 2014 For Immediate Release Contact:
Stephen Miller, 202.224.4124 U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) serves on four Senate
committees: Armed Services, Judiciary, Environment and Public Works, and as
Ranking Member of the Budget Committee. Visit Sessions online at his website <http://sessions.senate.gov/public/>
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