DHS releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants, blaming budget cuts

[DallasSleeper]

So we're just going to do away with due process?

So now you choose to apply the Constitution... to non-citizens?

[racrguy]

So now you choose to apply the Constitution... to non-citizens?

Doesn't the Constitution say ALL men are created equal? Point out to me where it says it only applies to American Citizens while inside the country.

[Forever_frost]

Hey, let's just shoot ALL the people who get arrested for something, as we have to feed and house them. Guilty or not, just shoot 'em and save the money. Seems legit.

Last time I checked, shooting invaders is permissible. They are not covered by Geneva or the Constitution. Line them up and mow them down. Or load them into a C130 and air drop them in a country of our choosing.

[Forever_frost]

Doesn't the Constitution say ALL men are created equal? Point out to me where it says it only applies to American Citizens while inside the country.

"We the People of the United States." Not "We the People of the World." Constitution applies to Americans, not invaders.

[Trip McNeely]

I still like my idea of buying them all bus tickets to places like DC, Berkley California, and NYC and any other liberal town that embraces them, or talks like they are.

[helosailor]

DHS official resigns after immigrants are freed

Updated: 14 minutes agoBy ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants announced his resignation the same day the agency said that hundreds of people facing deportation had been released from immigration jails due to looming budget cuts, according to a resignation letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. The government said he had told his bosses weeks ago that he planned to retire.Gary Mead, executive associate director over enforcement and removal operations at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, disclosed his departure in an email to his staff Tuesday afternoon. The announcement of the release of the illegal immigrants had come earlier in the day.President Barack Obama's spokesman, Jay Carney, said Wednesday that the decision to release the immigrants was made without any input from the White House. He described the immigrants as "low-risk, non-criminal detainees."The announcement that a few hundred illegal immigrants were being released was among the most significant and direct implications described so far by the Obama administration about the pending, automatic budget cuts that will take effect later this week under what is known as sequestration.Republicans in Congress quickly criticized the decision and pressed the Homeland Security Department for details.In an email to his staff obtained by the AP, Mead said he was leaving the agency at the end of April "with mixed emotions." He did not say what prompted his departure. Mead did not immediately respond to an email and a telephone call.A spokeswoman for the agency, Gillian Christensen, said there was no connection between Mead's announcement to his staff and the decision to release the illegal immigrants. She said Mead had told senior leaders in the agency several weeks ago that he planned to retire.Mead said Tom Homan will succeed him as acting executive associate director.At the White House, Carney said the decision to release what he described as "a few hundred" of the 30,000 illegal immigrants in federal detention was made by "career officials" at the immigration agency. He said the immigrants who were released were still subject to deportation."All of these individuals remain in removal proceedings," Carney said. "Priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety."ICE is required by Congress to maintain 34,000 immigration jail beds. As of last week, the agency held an average daily population of 30,733 in its jails.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned this week that DHS might not be able to afford to maintain those 34,000 jail beds and that mandatory budget cuts would hurt the department's core missions."I don't think we can maintain the same level of security at all places around the country with sequester as without sequester," said Napolitano, adding that the impact would be "like a rolling ball. It will keep growing."According to the National Immigration Forum, it costs the government about $164 a day to keep an illegal immigrant facing deportation jailed. In a report on immigration detention costs last year, the advocacy group said costs for supervised release can range from about 30 cents to $14 a day.Republican lawmakers have decried the jail releases. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, sent a letter Wednesday to ICE Director John Morton asking who was released and what was being done to keep track of them."This decision reflects the lack of resource prioritization within the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is indicative of the department's weak stance on national security," McCaul wrote.

[Forever_frost]

Why don't they bill the government of that illegal for the costs of housing them during the proceedings?

[DallasSleeper]

Doesn't the Constitution say ALL men are created equal? Point out to me where it says it only applies to American Citizens while inside the country.

So you are implying that our laws apply to citizens of a sovereign nation? Are we the NWO.

Should ILLEGAL aliens be afforded the same laws that our tax paying CITIZENS are? Hell no they shouldn't.

I would love to hear your thoughts on welfare and assistance for ILLEGAL aliens, please educate us.

[line-em-up]

why not just drive them across the border and open the school bus door?

That would be akin to pissing into the output side of a fan.

[stevo]

Did the 0bama regime not announce that they were no longer taking the illegals from states and deporting them a while back? Why are they not reporting that these illegals wouldn't be getting deported anyways?

Stevo

[line-em-up]

Doesn't the Constitution say ALL men are created equal? Point out to me where it says it only applies to American Citizens while inside the country.

All men are created equal, but we are still expected to obey the law.