The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released 3,700 “Threat Level 1” illegal alien criminals from custody while their deportation cases were being heard. The government claimed that court cases required the release of these criminals onto the streets of America. But House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) found that 57 percent of a total of all releases of criminals held in detention were discretionary. They could have been kept in custody.
The Obama Administration has justified its lax enforcement against most illegal aliens on the grounds that it wants to focus its resources on deporting the most dangerous criminals among them.
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