ICE gives away $113 million, says not enough illegal immigrants to deport

Started by Tacoma, December 03, 2015, 06:55:35 PM

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Tacoma

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/2/ice-gives-away-113-million-says-not-enough-illegal/

QuoteEven as they were pleading poverty in the federal courts, immigration officials gave away $113 million this year, with Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Sarah R. Saldana testifying to Congress on Wednesday that they didn't need the money because there weren't enough illegal immigrants to hold or deport.

Ms. Saldana, who runs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the chief deportation agency, also said estimates of the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. could be as high as 15 million. That is much more than the prevailing estimates of 11 million to 12 million, and it suggests a potentially bigger problem than the government has acknowledged.

"Probably every illegal alien could be removed. But that's 12 million people — or 15 million, depending on what estimate you look at," Ms. Saldana told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I don't think anybody who thinks that we can go about, rounding up people, with a $6.5 billion budget, as generous as that is, and as grateful as I am for it, believes that we can go and do that under that budget. There are reasons to make wise and smart and effective immigration priorities."

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official downplayed Ms. Saldana's estimate of the unauthorized population, saying the agency doesn't track that statistic and the director was citing it only informally.

Senators seized on her claims that ICE can't deport everyone. As long as she is giving back money, they said, she can't complain that her department doesn't have adequate resources.

"You gave away $100 million despite your repeated complaints about how you're doing the best you can with limited resources," Chairman Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, told the director.

You couldn't make this crap up, to survive as a nation we need to divest ourselves of this population entirely, and I'm not talking about the 20,000,000 - 30,000,000 illegal Mexicans, I mean the democratic marxists, its time to be rid of them!

tac

How about they deport the ones they catch instead of turning them loose.  :rolleyes: