Source for the following: PowerLine
Hillary Clinton and the release of thousands of criminal aliens
In effect, the administration has, as Bill Otis puts it, “unleashed its own crime wave.” But who within the administration was responsible for this for wanton indifference to public safety?The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released 36,007 convicted criminal aliens last year who were awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings, according to a report issued Monday by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The group of released criminals includes those convicted of homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping and aggravated assault, according to the report, which cites a document prepared by the ICE. . . .
According to the report, the 36,007 individuals released represented nearly 88,000 convictions, including:•193 homicide convictions
•426 sexual assault convictions
•303 kidnapping convictions
•1,075 aggravated assault convictions
•1,160 stolen vehicle convictions
•9,187 dangerous drug convictions
•16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions
One responsible party is Hillary Clinton. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies explains why:
Why would a criminal alien’s home country take the criminal back? Because federal law requires the secretary of state to stop issuing visas to the citizens of any country that refuses to take back its nationals.The Supreme Court [has] held that the federal government can detain aliens for deportation up to six months but generally must release the alien into the United States after that point if there is “no significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future.” One of the main reasons such a situation arises is that a criminal alien’s home country will refuse to take its nationals back.
Refusing to issue visas to
citizens of a foreign country would provide a powerful incentive for that
country to take back its nationals and thus create a significant likelihood of
removal in the foreseeable future. This, in turn, would enable the U.S. to avoid
releasing criminal aliens onto our streets.
But according to Krikorian,
Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have ignored the law and continued issuing visas
to citizens of countries that refuse to take back their citizens. Apparently,
they don’t wish to risk alienating these countries. They would rather see
dangerous criminals on the loose in the United States.
It’s a strange and irresponsible
preference. More than that, it’s an illegal one. 8 U.S.C. Section 1253(d)
commands that:
On being notified by the [DHS Secretary] that the government of a foreign country denies or unreasonably delays accepting an alien who is a citizen, subject, national, or resident of that country after the [DHS Secretary] asks whether the government will accept the alien under this section, the Secretary of State shall order consular officers in that foreign country to discontinue granting immigrant visas or nonimmigrant visas, or both, to citizens, subjects, nationals, and residents of that country until the [DHS Secretary] notifies the Secretary that the country has accepted the alien.
(emphasis added)
In sum, the lawless behavior of
the State Department, beginning under Hillary Clinton, has created a threat to
public safety in America. That will be worth remembering when criminal aliens
released because of the State Department’s unwillingness to follow the law
commit grisly crimes in the future.
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