Posted on 11/01/2015 1:36:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[Aaron] Diamant spent months analyzing millions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal records for fiscal years 2003 through 2013. The information was released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Of the 386,485 unauthorized immigrants removed from the United States in 2013, 222,972 of them - 60% - had at least prior removal. 42,116 of the total unauthorized immigrants removed that year had been convicted of an aggravated felony. Of those felons, 27,159 had been removed before. That's 64%.
Among the aggravated felons who had been removed at least once before were 281 killers, 178 kidnappers, 1149 sex criminals and thousands convicted on drug charges.
Diamant took those numbers to Jessica Vaughn with the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.
"My first reaction when I saw the results of your analysis was wow," said Vaughn. "Those absolute numbers are huge."
Vaughn studies these kind of number for her job. Still, she was surprised.
"I've never looked at the data the very same way, and I don't think anybody else has either," Vaughn added.
A groundbreaking Channel 2 Action News investigation has exposed a pattern involving thousands of unauthorized immigrants convicted of violent crimes. Many are removed from the United States multiple times after committing even more crimes.
Not even broken English can hide Nepalese native Mayaa Gurung's broken heart over the murder of her daughter, Manju Poonmagar.
"Now she's not home. Not here now. Very hard," Gurung told investigative reporter Aaron Diamant.
Sergio Vera-Lula recently pleaded guilty and got a life sentence for killing Poonmagar outside her Cobb County apartment in 2013.
"I need to meet with that guy," Gurung cried. "Why you kill my daughter?"
Poonmagar emigrated legally just two years before her death. Prosecutors found her murder capped off a two-week crime spree by Vera-Lula.
"He killed somebody in my county, and so that stuff amps me up. It does. It bothers me. It concerns me," said Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds.
Most concerning for Reynolds is the fact Vera-Lula was in the United States illegally. Federal authorities had already sent him back to Mexico three times, but he kept coming back through what Reynolds and other critics call our southern border's revolving door.
"I'm confident we could go to any of the courtrooms that we service day in and day out and find representatives of this same circumstance," Reynolds stated.
Diamant spent months analyzing millions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal records for fiscal years 2003 through 2013. The information was released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Of the 386,485 unauthorized immigrants removed from the United States in 2013, 222,972 of them - 60% - had at least prior removal. 42,116 of the total unauthorized immigrants removed that year had been convicted of an aggravated felony. Of those felons, 27,159 had been removed before. That's 64%.
Among the aggravated felons who had been removed at least once before were 281 killers, 178 kidnappers, 1149 sex criminals and thousands convicted on drug charges.
Diamant took those numbers to Jessica Vaughn with the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.
"My first reaction when I saw the results of your analysis was wow," said Vaughn. "Those absolute numbers are huge."
Vaughn studies these kind of number for her job. Still, she was surprised.
"I've never looked at the data the very same way, and I don't think anybody else has either," Vaughn added.
The data showed Georgia ranked first in deportations among all non-border states, and fourth overall behind only Texas, Arizona and California.
In Georgia, federal authorities deported 7120 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2013. 1173 of them had aggravated felony convictions. Of those, 513 (44%) had at least one prior removal. That includes nine convicted killers, 10 kidnappers, nearly 40 sex criminals and hundreds convicted on drug charges.
Those numbers shocked Georgia Senator David Perdue, who sits on the Senate's Judiciary Committee.
"These statistics that you're exposing now creates energy back home that creates pressure on politicians. And when you create pressure on politicians then things starts to happen (in Washington)," Perdue said.
Diamant also showed the numbers to Congressman Doug Collins of Gainesville is on the House Judiciary Committee.
"To the families who've been victimized by those who have been deported and come back and they've been victimized by these folks who shouldn't be in the country to begin with, thi sis not a political game, it's just the honest truth."
Poonmagar was Sujit Magar stepmother. His family echoed the call for fair immigration reform that keeps violent deported felons from coming back.
"America does so many other great things," Magar said. "I think if they really look [into] it, really put work to what has to be done, all these things could be stopped."
Diamant asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders to weigh in on all this, but so far the agency has turned down all of our requests for an interview.
I have a niece who has been in an assisted living facility for 15 years (soon to have been on a feeding tube 1/2 of her life); the drunk illegal (previously arrested for DWI many times) fled the traffic accident, was tracked down, tried, sentenced to 7 years and then deported.
What you do think he did when he got back to Mexico?
Oct 2015: “Nearly a third of the 6,000 inmates whom the Obama administration plans to release early from federal prisons across the United States this month are noncitizens, officials say.
Although a lack of cooperation between local or state jails and federal immigration officials has hampered past efforts to deport illegal immigrants once their sentences are complete, officials expect this process to go smoothly.......”
“Pinal County, AZ Sheriff and Congressional candidate Paul Babeu (R) stated that there’s “no chance” of the roughly 2,000 illegal immigrants who are part of the planned release of 6,000 prisoners will be sent back to their country of origin on Thursday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel.
Babeu said, “Well past practice is actually the best indicator of what’s going to happen in the future, and if anybody think that any of these illegals, what they’re saying, they’re promising they’re going to turn them over to ICE and they’re deport them because of their severe criminal records, well, how’s that that worked for us so far? It hasn’t. There’s no chance of them being deported to their country of origin and this just another lie. So, these 6,000 today that are being released, all of them have been in prison on average of nine years. They don’t come out of a federal prison as better, and adding value to our community. So, this total number that they’re looking to free is 46,000. These are 46,000 criminals, making criminals the priority instead of our safety and our citizens................”
Those illegals in the US who live on the up and up are much easier to detect, apprehend, and deport than those illegals who are here committing crime.
They need more interior enforcement which means spending more money on ICE agents, detention beds, lawyers, judges, courtrooms, etc.
The whole situation with any innocents involved is so sad...
Just 2 days ago I phoned a Nepalese friend who went back to Nepal 3 days before the earthquake there.. He and his family are ok, but lost their house..
Just last night, a Nepalese friend called and asked me to meet him at Nagoya Station, he plays acoustic guitar and sings for pocket change..
Nepalese people are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met, and always will give-up their food to make sure you eat first in rough situations.
Preaching to the choir here, but we need someone in power to eliminate the illegal cockroaches that are bringing terror and debt to our country.
Also, student and tourist visa illegals number in the millions.
So, our fair maven, you are now making it your business to castigate the one candidate who makes his prime issue of addressing the entire illegal and legal immigration problems we face,
and then you post this thread to point out the obvious?
Welcome to the party Pal-ete! Dive on in, the water is fine.
Nothing says I have to vote for Trump on SEC Tuesday but I can most certainly relish his taking on the issue head on. You have to admit it, he has totally changed the entire template the establishment set up for not us, but themselves.
All those illegals and their crimes create a lot of demand for Big Government. Our elected crooks like that.
Georgia has some tough illegal immigration laws. Enacted in 2011 there was much bellyaching about the harsh effects like agriculture. This didn’t turn out to be the big problem they said it would be. Other parts of the prohibition were enacted a little later. They include:
No in-state tuition
No drivers licenses (part of the Federal Secure ID program)
Mandatory immigration status check if person stopped can’t produce identification on request
Against the law to hire illegals
Against the law to seek employment using fake documents
Photo ID required to vote
These and other restrictions are always under legal attack, but so far the state has been doing more than some other states.
We have a problem here in Georgia because the economy and work environment isn’t so bad and illegals are all over the state and when they’re caught and detained, the Federal Government does NOTHING. They ARE the revolving door.
http://immigration.findlaw.com/immigration-laws-and-resources/georgia-state-immigration-laws.html
I’ve been at this party for a very, very, very long time.
I’ve lived in border states (combined) for over 40 years and have seen the problems it’s caused in other states as well.
So you can sit perched on your high horse and crow like Trump, but this isn’t something new to me or others who don’t wear the Trump brand.
Geez, if we want to go down that path of where all we have lived (and not just visited), I’ll Trump you, no pun intended.
Native Texan - El Paso
Cincinnati, Ohio (while my father was serving two consecutive tours of Korea)
Stuttgart, Germany
Birmingham, Alabama
Monterey, Kalifornja
Fort Bragg, NC
Fontainebleau France
Ft Dix NJ
Cincinnati again(Father in Vietnam was there for Tet)
Fort Polk, LA (Now it was my turn to serve)
Ft. Monmouth, NJ (Crypto school)
Tehran, Iran (STRATCOM & Embassy)
Ft. Huachuca, AZ (Electronic Proving Ground)
Jacksonville, FL
Tau Juang, Taiwan
I now have finally settled down here in Jax and now have customers all over the world.
and then you think I sit here and like you say “crow like Trump” with no basis of all my life’s experiences living the cultures of the world?
Get a life dearie, you obviously take yourself far too seriously.
“Those numbers shocked Georgia Senator David Perdue, who sits on the Senate’s Judiciary Committee.”
More handwringing and elephant tears from TPTB who won’t do anything to stop this.
and crow like Trump
CW, great post. Georgia has been overrun with illegals for a very long time and it’s main magnet was ag work. I thought once they tightened the penalties it would get better.
I think this may be a perfect case of where illegals families follow them and settle where they are.
One more thought, start offering bounties on people that hire and the illegals to Citizens that need some extra cash.
Make ICE respond to phone calls because when ICE is called now NOTHING is done.
The illegal problem could be solved easily. Station ICE agents at all public benefit offices, hospitals, and schools. Jail people who knowingly hire them.
End of problem.
“Trumpettes do not ever have anything good to add to the conversation.”
Bushbots are so smart. They come up with such keen things
and always back the winner./s
Interesting.
However, my point in mentioning my time living in border states was to address your earlier comment to me.
Bushbots are so smart.
Cannot string 5 words together without mentioning Bush or blaming Bush.
Get a life or pour some water on the lil hurty to make the pain go away.
And your solution is . . . . ?
Nothing, and I mean absolutely NOTHING you wrote is anywhere close to a solution but just wishful thinking and hoping, there we go with that one again, that some magical imaginary “Captain America” will come flying in to make ICE, or any other government agency do what they are supposed to do.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
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