Roughly one in five illegal immigrants arrested for a crime committed additional ones within three years of their release, according to a House Judiciary Committee report to be released Tuesday.
The findings are the result of the committee’s subpoena request for Department of Homeland Security records from October 2008 to July 2011.
The information was analyzed by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, which also broke down the information for criminal immigrants -- legal immigrants who committed crimes and were arrested again over the three-year period.
The records show 276,412 reported charges against illegal and criminal immigrants over that three-year period as identified by Secure Communities, a federal program that essentially attempts to make best use of resources by identifying and prioritizing which illegal immigrants pose the biggest threat to public safety and should be arrested or deported.
Among the key finding in the DHS records for the illegal and criminal aliens -- who also had a roughly one-in-five recidivism rate – was 57,763 alleged crimes committed over the period.
They committed nearly 8,500 drunken-driving offenses and more than 6,000 drug-related violations. The records also show major criminal offenses, which included murder, battery, rape, kidnapping and nearly 3,000 thefts. Roughly 2 percent of the crimes included carjacking, child molestation, lynching and torture, according to the 13-page Congressional Research Service report.
“The Obama administration could have prevented these senseless crimes by enforcing our immigration laws,” the committee chairman, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said. “But President Obama continues to further his anti-enforcement agenda while innocent Americans suffer the consequences.”
The records were subpoenaed last year in large part over concerns that Obama administration changes to Secure Communities was allowing “potentially millions of illegal and criminal immigrants to avoid current immigration law,” according to the GOP-led House committee.
The Department of Homeland Security could not be reached for comment.
Committee members cited one case in which an illegal immigrant was flagged by Secure Communities for a June 2010 vehicle theft and then arrested five months later for attempted grand theft.
He was then arrested roughly six months later in connection with murder. He and two other men allegedly attempted to rob a 68-year-old man. When the victim’s grandson intervened, the illegal immigrant allegedly shot and killed the grandson, according to the committee.
“While this illegal immigrant should have been detained and deported, he was not considered a priority under the Obama administration’s reckless immigration policy and was released onto our streets,” the committee concluded.
Other finders show of those re-arrested, nearly 30 percent, or 7,283, were illegal immigrants. Among the charges were 19 murders, three attempted murders and 142 sex crimes.
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I worked for Sanderson Farms INC a large poultry processor. They hired illegal aliens to avoid paying for health insurance. This is a two edged sword, one you don't get a job, two the taxes you pay to support your local hospital suffers from Illegal Alien criminals using your Emergency Room as their personal doctor.
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Illegal aliens are responsible for the national health care crisis. Our costs keep going up to pay for their free health care.
Our politicians, business leaders and illegal aliens have completely destroyed America.
They are all in bed together.
My daughters fathers is a deported sex offender who has made attempts on our live. Since 2011 hes been caught crossimg over 3!!!!! Times. Promising he ll make it one day, when will they lock him up n throw away the ley? NEVER. NOT EVEN TO PROTECT THEIR OWN TAX PAYING CITIZENS. WAS CHARGED WITH A MINOR PROSTITUTE JUST 10/12 n again they just release him again!!!
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