Department of Homeland Security released nearly 20,000 criminal immigrants last year, it’s revealed
ICE has released tens of thousands of convicted criminals
ICE Director Sarah Saldana told Congress recently that agents routinely have little choice but to release immigrants
She said it is bound by a complex set of immigration laws and rules
There is a years-long immigration court backlog of nearly half a million cases
Some criminal immigrants could be free in the United States for years before being ordered out of the country
DailyMail.com
12 May 2016
Close to 20,000 convicted criminal immigrants were released from jail by Homeland Security last year, it has been revealed.
Among the more than 19,700 convicts freed was Jean Jacques, an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, who killed a Connecticut woman just six months after he was allowed out.
The U.S. tried repeatedly to deport Jacques, but his native Haiti wouldn’t take him back after he served more than a decade in a state prison for attempted murder and committed multiple parole violations.
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