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The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned. The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal budget documents reviewed by the AP, are significantly higher than the "few hundred" illegal immigrants the Obama administration acknowledged this week had been released under the budget-savings process. The government documents show that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement released roughly 1,000 illegal immigrants from its jails around the U.S. each week since at least Feb. 15. The agency's field offices have reported more than 2,000 immigrants released before intense criticism this week led to a temporary shutdown of the plan, according to the documents. The states where immigrants were released include Arizona, California, Georgia and Texas. The White House has said it was not consulted about the releases, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has acknowledged they occurred in a manner she regrets.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
This is scary as all get out. Illegal means, by definition, they didn't go through any sort of vetting process or background investigations. ALL Politics aside. We have no idea, for certain, WHO these men are beyond the fingerprints they've had taken to know they are the same person each time they're found inside the U.S. They may as well be named John Doe #1, #2, #3 and so on...so all that tells us.
Now they're free and 2,000 in a shot over money excuses? Now these are the ones Janet says were released from her detention centers, by her people and within her department with 100% without her knowledge in any way, right?
Again, this isn't political, and I hope people don't take it there. I don't care who is serving or who appointed a DHS Secretary ..let alone WHO that Secretary is. That this could ever happen without the Secretary of DHS knowing and approving it, tells me the Secretary of DHS of either lying ...or running SUCH a loose ship for expectations and accountability that the nation very desperately needs one who can handle the job. The current one can't, obviously to my view.edit on 2-3-2013 by Wrabbit2000 because: minor correction.
Originally posted by bjax9er
your title should read, Obama freed over 2,000 immigrants since feb.
you cannot convince me the tyrant in chief had nothing to do with this.
notice they all point their finger at the next guy.
some low level guy just up and decides to release criminals.
yeah ok.
So Obama knows everything that every agency is doing. Sounds like your FOX/Limbaugh training is almost complete.
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by buster2010
So Obama knows everything that every agency is doing. Sounds like your FOX/Limbaugh training is almost complete.
The cuts are a result of sequester.
Sequester was initiated by Obama.
This is easy to follow, buster.
Blaming the sequester is just an excuse for not doing their jobs. A 164 dollars a day per person? Sounds like it needed to be cut. What are they feeding these people steak and lobster?
"Everybody else has to pay for food, why should they [inmates] get freebies," said Arpaio.
Arpaio confirmed to ABC15 that beginning in March, he is planning to charge each inmate $1 per day for the cost of their meals.
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"You have to be a little innovative these days with budget problems and rising costs," Arpaio told ABC15.
The Sheriff said meals used to cost $.60 a day per inmate, but the cost of food has risen since the jail is now purchasing more food with donations down.
Originally posted by bjax9er
Mark Levin? You do know he was a frequent contributor to the Limbaugh show. He also won the Ronald Reagan award. What a great high point in ones career winning a award named after a failure of a president.
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by buster2010
Mark Levin? You do know he was a frequent contributor to the Limbaugh show. He also won the Ronald Reagan award. What a great high point in ones career winning a award named after a failure of a president.
You must have misunderstood what he wrote. It was the Reagan award, not the Barrack Hussein Obama award.
...And Mark Levin is a Constitutional Lawyer. Do you have a problem with the constitution?
How can we get it together if all we are doing is slagging each other off?
This isn't a partisan thing anymore.
This is pure vengeance being taken out on the American people.
Originally posted by AshleyD
reply to post by seabag
In this specific case it is the democrats mucking it up.
I know it's cool to take the middle road and try and look like you're above it all but we're not fixing anything until we are honest with ourselves.
Originally posted by seabag
Originally posted by AshleyD
reply to post by seabag
In this specific case it is the democrats mucking it up.
Then I must remain partisan.
I know both parties are screwed up but the one causing us the most problems is the left. I stand opposed to them as well as any GOP tools who don't share my ideals. The GOP is liberal-lite as far as I'm concerned and I can't stand most of them. I do side with them more often than democrats though, as in this case.
The fact that, on this POTUS's watch, thousands of dangerous criminals are being released because of cuts he had months to fix is unacceptable. His dereliction of duty is profound.