Up to 30 per cent of illegal immigrants who commit crimes re-offend after they are released from prison

superbeets · Jun 5, 2016

[h=1]Up to 30 per cent of illegal immigrants who commit crimes re-offend after they are released from prison[/h]

The review looked at 323 New England criminals released from 2008-2012
All of them were ordered to be deported, but remained in the country
And 30 per cent of those re-offended, in some cases violently
One man molested a child; another stalked and stabbed his ex-girlfriend
And a man who was released after trying to burn a family later raped his ex
The Boston Globe had to sue the federal government to get the data

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 21:58, 5 June 2016 | UPDATED: 00:36, 6 June 2016

A new report suggests that 30 per cent of criminal immigrants who are not deported re-offend after being released from prison - over four times higher than figures previously given out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
Those new offenses - committed by immigrants who were not deported once their prison sentences were up despite orders to do so - included child molestation, murder and rape.
The three-year study by The Boston Globe looked at 323 foreign criminals who were released from prison in New England from 2008-2012 - using data made available only after the paper sued the federal government.

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superbeets · Jun 5, 2016

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Shocking: The shocking stats revealed that 30 per cent of New England's undeported criminal immigrants re-offended - a much higher figure than the seven per cent quoted by an immigration official in 2011

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Brutal: Jean Jacques was convicted of attempted murder in Connecticut and was supposed to be deported to Haiti on release in 2012. He wasn't. In 2015 he stabbed a 25-year-old woman to death and is now in prison again

Speaking in 2011, ICE Executive Associate Director Gary Mead told a House judiciary subcommittee that from 2009-2011 ICE released 'criminal and noncriminal aliens [who had] a relatively low re-detention rate of 7 per cent.'
But The Globe's own sample, from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, suggests that may be considerably higher in some areas.
Although its focus was on criminal immigrants, which would account at least partly for the increased numbers, The Globe's story highlighted some particularly grim tales.
One was the story of Jean Jacques, who had been imprisoned for attempted murder in Connecticut and was ordered to be deported to his home in Haiti on his release in 2012.
But Haiti refused to send him back and ICE eventually gave up trying and released him.
Three years later he stabbed 25-year-old Casey Chadwick of Norwich, Connecticut, to death and stuffed her body in a closet. He was convicted of murder in April.
'It is unacceptable that ICE failed to remove a convicted attempted murderer subject to a final deportation order - a measure that would have saved the life of Casey Chadwick,' said Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal (D) in a January statement.

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superbeets · Jun 5, 2016

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'Unacceptable': Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal (D) said it was 'unacceptable' that ICE didn't deport Jacques. ICE said it has no choice if governments refuse to take criminals back when it wants to deport them

'ICE’s responses thus far to our repeated inquiries into this case have been incomplete and unsatisfactory, and we hope that this independent inquiry will finally uncover the facts surrounding this tragedy, enabling reforms necessary to ensure that this never happens again.'
But details such as these are difficult to come by, since ICE says its records are private, and therefore cannot be disclosed under federal law - making it the only federal branch to do so.
The Globe had to take the federal government to court to get the list of released criminals it used in its study.
One of those criminals was Oscoe Housen, who had attacked a Framingham, Massachusetts woman with a hammer in 2008 and was locked up until 2009, when he was supposed to be deported back to Jamaica.
To the woman's surprise and horror, she ran into him outside a Stop & Shop in 2010. Early the next morning he broke into the woman's home and stabbed her and her male friend while her children were sleeping nearby.
Both survived and Housen, now 64, is serving up to 12 years in prison.
In 2000, Nhoeuth Nhim, then 18, was the oldest of a group of five teens who broke into the home of a hard-working immigrant Cambodian family, tied up all five residents - including a six-year-old girl.
After robbing the home, they then dragged them down to the basement where they lit a fire and left the family to burn.
The family survived, and Nhim was convicted - but instead of being deported on his release in 2009, ICE released him into Rhode Island, where he later sexually assaulted his ex-girlfriend. He is now back in prison.
And that same year ICE released Bo Kang Me, a Cambodian immigrant with a long criminal record who was quickly re-arrested and put away again.
Despite his history with the police, he was allowed to roam free in 2013, the year he picked up a child from a Providence, R.I. school and molested her. He was re-imprisoned.

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'Infuriating': Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said the release of criminals marked for deportation was 'infuriating.' ICE says the Supreme Court won't allow it to keep criminals locked up indefinitely

The Globe pointed out that the stats don't suggest immigrants are more likely to commit violence than American citizens - in fact statistics suggest the opposite - but do raise questions about the dangers of not deporting violent criminals.
ICE refused to comment on individual cases, but said: 'The decisions made in every case are made with the best available information ICE is able to obtain at the time.'
The agency says that its hands are tied in cases where the criminals' home countries refuse to take them back, as due to a 2001 Supreme Court ruling, it is not able to hold people indefinitely.
The Supreme Court said that if no deportation order can be made within six months, ICE should release the immigrant in question back into the U.S.
'So to sit there and say that the proud women and men of law enforcement in ICE are choosing to release criminals is absolutely unforgivable,' ICE Director Sarah Saldaña told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in April.
But Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) was unimpressed. 'What’s going on with Immigration and Customs Enforcement is one of the most infuriating things I think I’ve seen in this government yet,' he told Saldaña, adding: 'How do you look (victims) in the eye?'
Those like Chaffetz say there ought to be workarounds: seeking a civil commitment to have mentally ill people who commit crimes placed in secure care facilities, for example.
Or getting the Department of State to enact punitive measures on countries that don't take back their citizens if they commit crimes.
ICE said it plans to figure out the recidivism rate in the future.
ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer told the Globe in an email: 'ICE is committed to continually improving the agency’s ability to track and manage ever evolving agency-related data, but the agency does not have statistically reliable information on recidivism rates prior to [fiscal year 2013],'

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Angry: ICE Director Sarah Saldaña said it was 'unforgivable' to say ICE officers choose release criminals. However, opponents say that there are other actions ICE could take to keep them off the streets

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