Immigration detainees released in budget crunch

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Immigration detainees released in budget crunch

By E. J. TAMARA, Immigration detainees released in budget crunch

By E. J. TAMARA, Associated Press | February 25, 2013 | Updated: February 25, 2013 9:44pm| February 25, 2013 | Updated: February 25, 2013 9:44pm

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that federal immigration authorities have released a number of detainees around the country to save money.

Gillian Christensen, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington, D.C., said Monday that field offices have been directed to review their numbers of detained immigrants to ensure the jail populations stay within budgeted resources.

Christensen says an unspecified number of immigrants have been released and placed on more cost-effective forms of supervision.

She says she did not have further details about those forms of supervision or how many people have been released.


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[TinkerTot55]

1. Hopefully.......

....some families are reunited, although it's only a temporary solution, I assume.

Still, what a relief to some families!

[dotymed]

3. I agree but I am sickened by the jailings.

I wonder how much of our money was used to apprehend these desperado's?

[daybranch]

2. should be the rule

these more cost effective forms of supervision rather than a forced exception. It would save many millions of dollars and relieve a lot of misery.

[watoos]

4. That's why Arizona

wrote its immigration law, privatized prizons, baby. We are the only civilized nation that deliberately imprisons people just to make money.

[Tx4obama]

5. Kick... n/t

[alp227]

6. ...and Republicans IMMEDIATELY call for a vote against sequester.

Over a politically convenient issue: the ILLEGALS.

I wonder how many if these immigrants served time in private prisons though. And they better not release anyone suspected or convicted of drug/sexual/violent crime!

[Pterodactyl]

7. Seems to me that sending them back to their home countries would be cheaper than "supervising" them.