More than 100 immigrants whom the Obama administration released back into the community went on to be charged with subsequent killings, according to government data released Monday that raises more questions about whether immigration authorities are doing enough to detail illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.
121 murders attributed to illegals released by Obama administration - Washington Times
Whatever the government touches, it turns to nightmare. Obama released these criminals onto our streets knowing that they are dangerous. We should stop the immigration. Right now our economy is struggling. Millions upon millions of Americans are out of work. 44 million Americans are on food stamps. 47 million Americans are living in poverty. We just can’t take in a whole lot of extra workers right now.
The first paragraph is a quote from the Washington Times and the rules tell us we must indicate such quotes.
The Times, for some reason, fails to provide a link to the 'report' they have used as the basis for the article. In fact they are no links to webpages other than their own.
One little point the Times does have in its article;
". . . 33 of those were ordered released by immigration courts and another 24 were released because of a 2001 Supreme Court decision capping the time an immigrant can be detained to six months. Technically, the 121 were all "Released by the Obama Administration" but for some reason, the guy who has "
blatant disrespect for the Supreme Court" followed one of its orders in releasing the illegals. 57 out of the 121 were released from ICE detention owing to legal procedures.
The second point is the classification: "homicide-related offenses" which does not necessarily indicate murder as it also includes cases of self-defence and accidental deaths. We also should acknowledge that not every person arrested and charged with killing another will be found guilty.
A person might think that the editors of the Washington Times wants to keep its readers from reading original sources. It didn't take me very long to track down the actual ICE report, which was more of a letter to some Republican Senators but it would have been much simpler if the Times had provided a link.
First, I went to the
ICE homepage, then to its "Newsroom" (click on the word in the title bar) and found nothing.
Second, I did the Google on the phrase, "homicide-related offenses". Results included a couple of legal pages which provided the definition and a page with a headline similar to the WashTimes headline.
HNGN.com "News for a Mobile Generation". Unlike the WashTimes, this article included links to outside pages.
Unfortunately, what appeared to be a link in the following paragraph, came up with
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"Between FY 2010 and FY 2014, there were 121 unique criminal aliens who had an active case at the time of release and were subsequently charged with homicide-related offenses," ICE Director Sarah Saldaña wrote in a newly released letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
But, further down in the article in the following paragraph, a valid link is present
Grassley and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., sent a
follow-up letter Monday to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson asking how decisions are "made by Justice Department officials to release criminals from custody prior to their deportation."
Clicked on the "follow-up letter" to go thru to Senator Grassley's page. In his letter, I found the link to the "report" from ICE Director Sarah Saldaña --
http://www.grassley.senate.gov/site...5-05-28 ICE to CEG and Flake (Altimirano).pdf
The question for me: Why didn't source of the original article, the Washington Times, provide this link? The letter shows nothing that really attempts to cover up any actions by the Administration, so why the failure on the part of the Times?