Posted on 07/22/2011 11:41:37 AM PDT by worst-case scenario
WASHINGTON -- Huge increases in deportations of people after they were arrested for breaking traffic or immigration laws or driving drunk helped the Obama administration set a record last year for the number of criminal immigrants forced to leave the country, documents show.
The U.S. deported nearly 393,000 people in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, half of whom were considered criminals. Of those, 27,635 had been arrested for drunken driving, more than double the 10,851 deported after drunken driving arrests in 2008, the last full year of the Bush administration, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data provided to The Associated Press.
An additional 13,028 were deported last year after being arrested on less serious traffic law violations, nearly three times the 4,527 traffic offenders deported two years earlier, according to the data.
The spike in the numbers of people deported for traffic offenses as well as a 78 percent increase in people deported for immigration-related offenses renewed skepticism about the administration's claims that it's focusing on the most dangerous criminals.
President Barack Obama regularly says his administration is enforcing immigration laws more wisely than his predecessor by focusing on arresting the "worst of the worst." He promised in his 2008 presidential campaign to focus immigration enforcement on dangerous criminals. As recently as May 10, Obama said in a speech in El Paso, Texas, that his administration was focused on violent offenders and not families or "folks who are looking to scrape together an income."
Most of the immigrants deported last year had committed drug-related crimes. They totaled 45,003, compared with 36,053 in 2008. Drug-related crime - described as the manufacture, distribution, possession or sale of drugs - has been the No. 1 crime among immigration for years. Drunken driving was third in number of offenses last year.
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Oh, right - we can't do that, can we?
Shows how true the Obama administration is on the victimization of illegal aliens. Hey, if someone DUIs, sorry but that’s how you get caught and punished, even if you are a person trying to get a free-ride residence in the U.S.
Foreigners who are here illegally should be deported/ what is so controversial about it?
Well, at least they are being deported. Wonder what role the Black community is playing in all this?
“Foreigners who are here illegally should be deported/ what is so controversial about it?”
Your first word should have been ALL.
All foreigners who are here illegally should be deported/ what is so controversial about it?
There should be NO controversy about it, ALL illegals are criminals, their being here is illegal, a crime, and reason enough to deport them.
Not as much as they should!
If the recurrent reports are accurate unemployment in the “Black Community” is double or more the rate in the “White Community”. (I thought it was supposed to be one America, maybe a little less self imposed apartheid would help too?)
Illegals take jobs that would otherwise be available to even poorly educated “Black Community” members.
You would think self interest would be enough to motivate the “Black Community” to push their representatives to enforce our immigration laws.
anyone know if a UK citizen who is a legal US resident, who has been convicted of 3rd degree felony cocaine possession, can 1) return from a trip outside the US through immigration, and can 2) renew their green card?
anyone know if a UK citizen who is a legal US resident, who has been convicted of 3rd degree felony cocaine possession, can 1) return from a trip outside the US through immigration, and can 2) renew their green card?
You can’t deport foreigners just because they are here illegally. You can’t ask them for immigration status, either. They have to have committed a crime.
When they’re picked up, if there is a question about their status, they are just held in detention facilities while the government decides what to do with them.
No idea. Have you checked with immigration?
Just out of curiosity - why do you ask?
And how many have gotten back in? My bet would be that 3/4, if not more, of that 393,000 already have.
If they are here illegally, they have committed a crime.
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