[–] Blue_Walleye 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Contact: Marguerite Telford 202-466-8185, mrt@cis.org
Washington, D.C. (March 5, 2019) - The Center for Immigration Studies announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Center for Immigration Studies v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (No. 19-cv-605). The Center was compelled to file after ICE failed to comply with the time limit set forth in federal statute with respect to the CIS December FOIA request for specific information pertaining to individuals removed from the United States from 2014-2018.
The lawsuit seeks information such as immigration status and charges, location of arrest, country of citizenship, criminal convictions, place of entry, and departure date. This information will update the Center’s database of removals since ICE’s creation in 2003, and will permit ongoing detailed analysis of immigration enforcement activities over time.
Jessica Vaughan, the Center’s director of policy studies, said, “The Center has brought this action against ICE in an effort to ensure that we have timely access to government data that will enable us to produce fact-based reports on immigration enforcement that are useful to policymakers and the public. This endeavor is especially critical now, when too much misinformation and too many biased studies are contributing to a false narrative about immigration enforcement.”
[–] deleveled [S] 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Key Findings in Brief
FAIR found that in all SCAAP-reporting states along the Southern Border, and in SCAAP-reporting interior states that are preferred destinations for unlawful migrants, illegal aliens are incarcerated at a much higher rate than citizens and lawfully-present aliens.
SCAAP data indicate that illegal aliens are typically at least three times as likely to be incarcerated than citizens and lawfully-present aliens.
Since the SCAAP program only includes those illegal aliens who have, at some point, been convicted of a crime, the only reasonable conclusion is that illegal aliens must commit crimes at a higher rate than citizens or lawfully-present aliens in order to be incarcerated at such high rates.
These findings stand in stark contrast to the narrative pushed by the open-borders lobby that illegal aliens are less likely to commit crimes compared to citizens or lawfully-present aliens.
[–] Firehouse_Subs ago
"ICE arrests 123 in New Jersey during nationwide operation targeting aliens with prior arrests or convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs"
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-123-new-jersey-during-nationwide-operation-targeting-aliens-prior-arrests
[–] Firehouse_Subs ago
Another one from the pickle bucket. 🥒