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Monday, 26 March 2007

Shocker: If you release lawbreakers,
it's hard to find them again!
Michelle Malkin

I've reported on the absconder problem extensively in Invasion and in my columns. This is nothing new:

Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave have a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and can't accurately account for the fugitives' whereabouts, the government reported Monday.

The report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general found that the effectiveness of teams assigned to find the fugitives was hampered by "insufficient detention capacity, limitations of an immigration database and inadequate working space."

Even though more than $204 million was allocated for 52 fugitive operations teams since 2003, a backlog of 623,292 cases existed as of August of 2006, the report said. ...

What is new--this fun fact: ...

Posted by Bill Faith on March 26, 2007 at 05:14 PM in Immigration | Permalink

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