[ Reporter Aaron] Diamant spent months analyzing millions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal records for fiscal years 2003 through 2013. The information was released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Of the 386,485 unauthorized immigrants removed from the United States in 2013, 222,972 of them – 60% – had at least prior removal. 42,116 of the total unauthorized immigrants removed that year had been convicted of an aggravated felony. Of those felons, 27,159 had been removed before. That’s 64%.
Among the aggravated felons who had been removed at least once before were 281 killers, 178 kidnappers, 1149 sex criminals and thousands convicted on drug charges.
Diamant took those numbers to Jessica Vaughn with the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.
“My first reaction when I saw the results of your analysis was wow,” said Vaughn. “Those absolute numbers are huge.”
Vaughn studies these kind of number for her job. Still, she was surprised.
“I’ve never looked at the data the very same way, and I don’t think anybody else has either,” Vaughn added.
The data showed Georgia ranked first in deportations among all non-border states, and fourth overall behind only Texas, Arizona and California.
In Georgia, federal authorities deported 7120 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2013. 1173 of them had aggravated felony convictions. Of those, 513 (44%) had at least one prior removal. That includes nine convicted killers, 10 kidnappers, nearly 40 sex criminals and hundreds convicted on drug charges.
Those numbers shocked Georgia Senator David Perdue, who sits on the Senate’s Judiciary Committee.
“These statistics that you’re exposing now creates energy back home that creates pressure on politicians. And when you create pressure on politicians then things starts to happen (in Washington),” Perdue said.
Diamant also showed the numbers to Congressman Doug Collins of Gainesville is on the House Judiciary Committee.
“To the families who’ve been victimized by those who have been deported and come back and they’ve been victimized by these folks who shouldn’t be in the country to begin with, thi sis not a political game, it’s just the honest truth.”
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One Response
For the scumbags that are deported and then reenter illegally, we need a special kind of punishment-maybe an open door flight back home?
When President Trump builds the wall, this multiple times reentering illegally will stop.