Hundreds of released illegals convicted of kidnapping, homicide

More than 1,000 of the criminal aliens immigration authorities released into the community while awaiting deportation in 2014 were then convicted of still more crimes ranging from kidnapping and sexual assault against a child to vehicular homicide, according to statistics released Tuesday.

The new data, released by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, is part of a pushback against advocacy groups’ claims that immigration is a victimless crime. Instead, argue victim’s rights groups, the victims are innocent Americans who would never have suffered if the government had been enforcing the law.

Mr. Goodlatte released the data, based on Homeland Security information, as department Secretary Jeh Johnson prepared to testify Tuesday morning on his immigration enforcement priorities, which he said are trying to focus on serious criminals.

“Currently, 96 percent of all those detained by ICE and the Border Patrol fit within the top two out of the three enforcement priorities; 76 percent of those currently detained by ICE and the Border Patrol are in the top priority — convicted felons, those convicted of an offense that involves participation in a criminal street gang, those apprehended at the border while attempting to cross illegally, and anyone suspected of terrorism or espionage, or who otherwise poses a danger to national security,” Mr. Johnson says in his prepared testimony.


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