ICE Released 169 Illegals Convicted of Homicide-Related Crimes Sen. Chuck Grassley has finally gotten an answer to his letter demanding to know why Immigration and Customs Enforcement released 169 illegal aliens convicted of homicide-related crimes. And he’s not satisfied with that answer. The Iowa legislator, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent the letter to Jeh Johnson, secretary of ICEs parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security. According to multiple news reports, in 2013, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released from its custody 36,007 immigrants who had been convicted of a crime and were awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings, Grassley wrote. This included 116 individuals who had been convicted of homicide, with a total of 193 homicide convictions between them. For each discretionary release, please explain why the convicted criminal alien in question was released. For each homicide convict released, please indicate what conditions were imposed upon the release in order to protect public safety. If none, then please explain why precautionary conditions were not imposed. ICE responded to Grassleys letter (using the number 169 rather than 116): Of the 169 ICE detainees with a homicide-related conviction who were released from ICE custody in FY 2013, 131 have been issued a final order of removal. Of the remaining 38 aliens who have not been issued a final order of removal, one was granted voluntary departure by an immigration judge and subsequently deported within the permitted timeframe. Further, 154 of the 169 were released pursuant to court order due to Zadvydas.” ICE referred to the Supreme Court decision in Zadvydas v. Davis in 2001, interpreted to mean that the government must release aliens if they are not accepted for deportation by their home countries within six months. Grassley is an original co-sponsor of legislation that would close the legal loophole created by the court decision, he noted in a press release taking issue with ICE’s explanation. The senator stated: The public needs to know when a person in the country illegally, and who has been convicted of a homicide, is released into their communities. Weve introduced legislation that would reverse the court case that the Obama administration is relying on to excuse its irresponsible release of thousands of criminally convicted aliens.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:25:58 +0000
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