Homeland Security misled the Congress and has been granting defacto amnesty

  Homeland Security misled the public and the Congress in regards to the scope of their policy which dismissed hundreds of pending illegal immigration hearings, thereby granting defacto amnesty to those aliens, who were released allowed to return to their lives without repercussions for their actions. So says this story which is based on internal memos which were released on a FOIA request.

  The Department of Homeland Security and ICE adopted a policy of priority which allowed hundreds of illegal aliens to walk free if they had committed no other crime. While I understand placing cases in which illegal aliens had committed additional crimes ahead of cases where the illegal aliens did not commit an additional crime, the fact remains that a crime was committed the moment that these people snuck across the border. While these people should have a lower priority, these cases never should have been dismissed outright. In effect the United States government has granted these illegal aliens amnesty with their unwillingness to try them for their actions and deport them when called for.

  How many of these cases which were dismissed led to crimes which would have been prevented if the suspect was brought to trial BEFORE an additional crime was committed? That is a stat I would love to see and if the Department of Homeland Security was serious about protecting the American people they would be stopping these people before they committed a crime against an American citizen and not waiting until an additional crime was committed. By that time it is to late for the American families who have been hurt by a person the government had in custody and released.

  The president and Janet Napolitano like to claim that the border has never been more secure–hell, the president even laughingly declared that the border wall was nearly complete–but they are hiding the true numbers of illegals that are being caught by letting them go before they come to trial.

  The excuse behind this outrageous policy is the claim that the courts will be overrun with cases of immigration, so only people who have committed additional crimes will be tried, but if the courts would be this overwhelmed with immigration cases than it simply highlights the problems we still face at the border. (Perhaps these two agencies should focus on their jobs and stop going after piracy websites which do not fall under their scope of power.) To claim that the border is more secure now than ever before is simply a lie.