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Official: Release of detained immigrants ‘just efforts to live within our budget’
NBC News ^ | March 19, 2013 | Carrie Dann

Posted on 03/19/2013 11:24:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The head of the nation’s immigration enforcement agency said Tuesday that the decision to release over two thousand detained illegal immigrants was done for budgetary reasons alone and independent of political pressure, pushing back against critics who claim the Obama administration publicized the release of criminals to highlight the consequences of budget sequestration.

“There are no mass releases of dangerous criminals underway or any plan for the future, just efforts to live within our budget,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton said in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: aliens; bs; illegalsreleased; immigration; obama; sequesterpunishes

1 posted on 03/19/2013 11:24:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Deport.


2 posted on 03/19/2013 11:51:41 PM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have a simple but cunning plan to easily cut government 5% across the board...


3 posted on 03/19/2013 11:59:58 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Obama may find out this cancelling of tours, egg hunts and releasing criminals as the fault of those meanie Republicans may backfire.


4 posted on 03/20/2013 3:47:06 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Decades later Comrade Obama will state, “We had to destroy America to save it.”


5 posted on 03/20/2013 4:00:58 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

So, let’s live within our budget even more and deport the remaining 45 million of them that are still here, sucking up benefits of every kind.

Yes, I said 45 million....because that 12 million figure is a complete LIE.


6 posted on 03/20/2013 4:27:55 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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