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89 Convicts Released

Obama Grants Clemency to 46 Nonviolent Prisoners in Push for Criminal Justice Reform
Natalie Johnson / @nataliejohnsonn / July 13, 2015

President Obama today commuted the sentences of 46 prisoners forced behind bars for nonviolent drug crimes, marking the latest move in a bipartisan push to relax harsh sentencing laws.

Obama said the inmates granted clemency were serving punishments that “didn’t fit the crime” in a video announcement posted to the White House Facebook page Monday afternoon.

“These men and women were not hardened criminals, but the overwhelming majority had been sentenced to at least 20 years—14 of them had been sentenced to life—for nonviolent drug offenses,” the president said. “If they’d been sentenced under today’s laws, nearly all of them would’ve already served their time.”

Monday’s orders more than doubled the number of commutations Obama has granted since taking office, bringing his clemency grants to a total of 89, the most any administration has ordered since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.

John Malcolm, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said Obama has given the inmates granted clemency a “tremendous opportunity” to rejoin society.

“It is my sincere hope that they prove themselves to be worthy of the trust that has been reposed in them and that they become law abiding, productive members of society,” he said.

Obama’s commutations are part of a broader push to reform the criminal justice system’s outdated sentencing procedures put in place in the 1980s by politicians who wanted to crack down on crime. The U.S. currently spends $80 billion a year incarcerating people who have committed nonviolent drug crimes, according to the White House.

“America is a nation of second chances and I believe these folks deserve their second chance,” Obama said. “I also believe there’s a lot more we can do to restore the sense of fairness at the heart of our justice system and to make sure our tax dollars are well spent even as we are keeping our streets safe.”

The president is spending the week focusing on criminal justice reform, taking his next step in Philadelphia at the NAACP’s annual convention Tuesday, where he will introduce proposals that would change sentencing guidelines at the federal level.

Obama will then travel to a prison in Oklahoma Thursday, becoming the first sitting president to visit a federal prison.

“Together, we can make our communities safer, we can spend our tax dollars more wisely, and we can make sure that more of our citizens, even those who’ve made mistakes, have a chance to become productive members of our society and contribute to this country we love,” he said.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-admin-releases-166000-criminal-illegal-aliens/

165,950 Convicts Released

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Obama Handed 166,000 Criminal Illegals A Free Pass. The Reason Will Outrage You

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...165,950 illegal aliens with criminal convictions...

Randy DeSoto
March 24, 2015 at 2:04pm

Judicial Watch obtained documents proving that, to date, the Obama administration has released 165,950 illegal aliens with criminal convictions back into the population. The watchdog organization released 76 pages of Homeland Security documents on Friday, retrieved through FOIA request, showing that many of the criminals were found guilty of violent crimes, including homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault.

According to a report published by the Center for Immigration Services in May 2014, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) freed 36,007 convicted criminal aliens who had nearly 88,000 convictions, including 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, and 303 kidnapping convictions in the year 2013 alone

Immediately following the release of the CIS report, former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, issued a statement terming the action “the worst prison break in American history.” He added that “President Obama’s lax immigration policies have put the lives of Americans at risk.”

The documents obtained by Judicial Watch include an email from House Homeland Security Subcommittee Counsel Valerie Baldwin to the Executive Associate Director of ICE Thomas Homan last May expressing the subcommittee’s frustration over ICE’s stonewalling of information concerning the criminal alien release policies:

At the ICE hearing and throughout the data call on ICE’s budget request, we’ve requested data on the make-up of the non-detained ATD [Alternatives to Detention] docket, specifically as it relates to violent crimes. I’m wondering why the Washington Times and Washington Post have more information on the ATD population than the Chairman and the other members of the subcommittee. Please respond with an answer today.


Western Journalism reported on a high profile ICE nationwide sweep for criminal illegal aliens (called “Operation Cross Check”) which occurred in the first week of March, 2015. ICE touted that it had rounded up over 2,000 criminal illegal aliens who “will be processed administratively for removal from the United States.” According to an ICE press release, the agency had gone after:

Priority 1 targets [which] include threats to national security, criminal street gang members, convicted felons, and aggravated felons. Priority 2 targets [which] have convictions for three or more misdemeanors or convictions for significant misdemeanors, including DUIs.
The documents obtained by Judicial Watch call into question the seriousness of ICE’s efforts in executing its own stated priorities. Judicial Watch’s president, Tom Fitton, said:

It’s appalling that we’ve had to sue in federal court to get key information about the Obama administration’s release of 165,950 convicted criminal aliens. These documents show the Obama administration is lying when it says that its ‘enforcement priorities’ include deporting illegal aliens who have committed heinous crimes…Where do the innocent victims of the illegal alien criminals this president’s appointees have set free go for justice?
h/t: Breitbart

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http://www.inquisitr.com/2250005/sanctuary-cities-about-9000-illegal-alien-criminals-set-free-last-year-report/

9,000 Convicts Released

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News July 13, 2015
Sanctuary Cities: About 9,000 Illegal Alien Criminals Set Free Last Year [Report]
about 9000 illegal alien criminals set free by sanctuary cities in 2014
Sanctuary city policies in upwards of 200 U.S. municipalities resulted in approximately 9,000 illegal immigrant criminals reportedly being set free in our country in an eight-month period.

That is the conclusion of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) think tank in an analysis of 2014 Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained from the U.S. government through a freedom of information request.

Law enforcement officials in sanctuary cities, among them San Francisco, are non-compliant with federal ICE agents and generally ignore a so-called detainer from the feds, i.e., a written notice to hold a particular illegal immigrant in jail until ICE can take the individual into custody for deportation. Such ordinances also generally prohibit local cops from alerting ICE agents that they have arrested an illegal alien felon.

The murder of Kate Steinle at the San Francisco Pier 14 Embarcadero waterfront by a five-time-deported illegal immigrant has sparked a nationwide debate about cities which defy federal law and appear to offer refuge to illegal aliens.

Following the Steinle murder, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee claimed that “it was never contemplated that our sanctuary city would give protection to serious repeat felony offenders.”

Overall deportations nationwide in the last few years have plummeted.

The CIS anlysis addressed the public safety ramifications of sanctuary city policies around the country, which refused to comply with a total of 8,811 detainers during the January to August 2014 time frame.

“State and local sanctuary policies caused the release of more than 8,000 criminal alien offenders sought by ICE for deportation in 276 jurisdictions around the country over an eight-month period… Sixty-three percent of the individuals freed by local authorities had prior criminal histories or were labeled a public safety concern at the time of their release. Nearly 1,900 of the released offenders subsequently were arrested for another crime within that eight-month period. ICE arrested approximately 750 of the recidivists, but just over 1,000 (60 percent) remained at large.”

Apart from the sanctuary city controversy, late last year, in a study of ICE statistics, CIS claimed that about 167,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records are allegedly on the loose in the U.S. after being freed by federal authorities.


The Washington Times has reported that overall deportations have dropped 25 percent this year so far and have decreased 41 percent over the past three years. The number of illegal alien felons removed from the U.S. has also reportedly decreased by 30 percent in 2015 under what the Obama administration has deemed prosecutorial discretion.

Out of 17,000 criminal immigrants set free in 2014 on a discretionary basis, Homeland Security officials also reportedly released into America about 3,700 top deportation priority “Threat Level 1″ illegal alien criminals while their cases were still pending in immigration courts. In addition, more than 100 illegal immigrants released from detention by the federal government while they were awaiting deportation allegedly went on to commit murder in the U.S., according to the Obama administration’s own data.

In a letter sent last week to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, who chairs the Appropriations Committee, has suggested that Department of Justice grants should be yanked from any sanctuary city. “Municipalities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration laws simply should not receive the Department of Justice’s assistance funding. The freedoms we enjoy — like strolling on a San Francisco pier with our children — are possible only when we are willing to enforce the federal laws that keep our families and our freedoms safe.”

The CIS report concluded that it is unlikely that San Francisco will face legal jeopardy as a result of the Steinle fatal shooting.

“Many believe that the federal government has grounds to sue San Francisco in federal court for obstructing its work. That’s a good idea in theory, but the Obama administration has made it clear that it will assert federal supremacy in immigration matters only when the states like Arizona are trying to help enforce the laws, not when states like California try to block enforcement. Moreover, the Obama administration has given sanctuaries free rein to ignore detainers by ending the successful Secure Communities program and replacing it with the Priority Enforcement Program This new program explicitly allows local agencies to disregard ICE notifications of deportable aliens in their custody by replacing detainers with ‘requests for notification.'”

Legislation called the Davis-Oliver Act (in memory of the two California sheriff’s deputies killed by a previously deported illegal alien last year) has been introduced in Congress would disqualify sanctuary cities and towns from a certain level of federal funding if they refused to comply with ICE detainers.

Given that the US is famous for incarcerating more people per capita than any other state in the world, I suspect this is a drop in the bucket.

However, if you wish to become enraged about it, feel free. I just hope he doesn't use his clemency powers to free up a bunch of rich friends, like all the previous Presidents of both parties have done.

http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/obamas-america-121-illegal-alien-criminals-set-free-then-accused-of-murder/

121 Convicts Released, then charged with murder


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Obama’s America: 121 Illegal Alien Criminals Set Free, Then Accused Of Murder


Robert Gehl ROBERT GEHL JULY 13, 2015
In the last five years, the Obama Administration released 121 illegal alien criminals who went on to be charged with murder.

These are illegal aliens who are in the custody of Immigration and by all rights should be deported because they’re convicted, but because of our lax immigration policies, they were released.

In fact, of the 121, 33 were released specifically because of the policies of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, one of Obama’s departments, according to a letter from ICE Director Sarah Saldana to Sens. Jeff Flake and Chuck Grassley.

In a scathing piece criticizing President Obama’s silence on the murder of Kathryn Steinle, Washington Post writer Marc A. Thiessen tells the story of one victim of these illegal immigrant criminals that Obama set free:


In one case, an illegal immigrant and felon named Apolinar Altamirano allegedly gunned down a 21-year-old Arizona convenience store clerk, Grant Ronnebeck, over a pack of cigarettes. Altamirano had been convicted of felony burglary and was in the middle of deportation proceedings. But ICE released him after he posted a $10,000 bond — which allowed him to allegedly go kill an innocent young man. Asked by Sens. Flake and Grassley whether she had notified state and local authorities when Altamirano was released, Saldana replied, “ICE does not routinely notify local authorities when a detainee is released on bond from ICE custody.”

And if you think these criminals are just petty thieves when they’re released, you’re wring. Between 2008 and 2012, ICE release 424 convicted sex offenders across the country. These are rapists and child molesters. The Boston Globe found that at least 34 of the 424 went on to commit their crimes again after they were released.

After Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray were killed, Obama had liberal public policy points he wanted to make — about gun control, “stand your ground” laws, racial profiling and police bias. In the Steinle case, there are no issues Obama wants to highlight — because his administration supports the policies that led to her death.

No wonder Obama is silent.

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68,000 Convicts Released In 2013


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UPDATED: Mon, MAR 31st 2014 @ 11:54 am EDT

A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies has determined that the Obama administration released 68,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions in 2013. Additionally, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reported 722,000 encounters with illegal aliens in 2013, but only followed through with immigration charges for 195,000 of them. The conclusions are based on data from ICE's 2013 year-end "Weekly Departures and Detention Report."

According to ICE personnel who spoke with the report's author, Jessica Vaughan, the majority of the releases occurred because of current administration policies that shield most illegal aliens from enforcement. According to the administration, enforcement is limited to individuals who have been convicted of a serious criminal offense, those apprehended in the act of crossing the border, those who have been previously deported, and fugitives from the law.

The report's full findings include:

In 2013, ICE charged only 195,000, or 25 percent, out of 722,000 potentially deportable aliens they encountered. Most of these aliens came to ICE's attention after incarceration for a local arrest.
ICE released 68,000 criminal aliens in 2013, or 35 percent of the criminal aliens encountered by officers. The vast majority of these releases occurred because of the Obama administration's prosecutorial discretion policies, not because the aliens were not deportable.
ICE targeted 28 percent fewer aliens for deportation from the interior in 2013 than in 2012, despite sustained high numbers of encounters in the Criminal Alien and Secure Communities programs.
Every ICE field office but one reported a decline in interior enforcement activity, with the largest decline in the Atlanta field office, which covers Georgia and the Carolinas.
ICE reports that there are more than 870,000 aliens on its docket who have been ordered removed, but who remain in defiance of the law.
Under current policies, an alien's family relationships, political considerations, attention from advocacy groups, and other factors not related to public safety can trump even serious criminal convictions and result in the termination of a deportation case.
Less than 2 percent of ICE's caseload was in detention at the end of fiscal year 2013.
About three-fourths of the aliens ICE detained in 2013 had criminal and/or immigration convictions so serious that the detention was required by statute. This suggests the need for more detention capacity, so ICE can avoid releasing so many deportable criminal aliens.
According to the organization Texas Border Volunteers, many criminals aren’t being identified at the border because, to the extent that any criminal background are conducted, aliens are run through the National Criminal Information Center and other law enforcement databases that only reveal criminal activity that occurred in the United States, not from an alien’s home country.

In response to the news of the Administration's mass release of criminal aliens, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said “The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that immigration enforcement in America has collapsed. Even those with criminal convictions are being released...American citizens have a legal and moral right to the protections our immigration laws afford—at the border, the interior and the workplace. The Administration has stripped these protections and adopted a government policy that encourages new arrivals to enter illegally or overstay visas by advertising immunity from future enforcement."

For the full report, see the Center for Immigration Studies.

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(Illegal Alliens) , Under The Obama Administration .... Plus The Clemency To The 89 Americans. (& the 200,000 # WAS FOUR MONTHS AGO)


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Nearly 200,000 convicted criminal aliens released under Obama administration

During the last fiscal year, 30,000 more convicted criminal aliens were let free.

During President Obama’s time in office, nearly 200,000 convicted criminal aliens have been released into the streets in the United States.

Judicial Watch recently released documents consisting of 76 pages of information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showing that as of April 26, 2014, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a total of 165, 900 criminal aliens. Some of the released convicts committed serious crimes such as homicide, kidnapping, sexual assault, and aggravated assault.

Judicial Watch obtained the documents using a Freedom of Information Act request, and found that in 2013 alone, the severity of the crimes of some of the released criminals in concerning.

“The ICE documents confirm a May 2014 Center Immigration Studies (CIS) report showing that in 2013 ICE freed 36,007 convicted criminal aliens, who had nearly 88,000 convictions, including 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, and 303 kidnapping convictions,” the report reads.

It continues, “As has been previously reported, and is evidenced in these documents, the 36,007 criminal aliens freed by ICE in 2013 were just the tip of the iceberg. In a DHS “Overview of ICE” document marked “FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY,” the following figures are reported through April 26, 2014 [NOTE: “Final Order” indicates the illegal aliens were ordered to leave the country, but have not done so and remain free]:

Non-Detained Final Order Convicted CRIMINAL 165,950
Non-Detained Final Order NON CRIMINAL 706,950
Non-Detained Final Order TOTAL 872,900″
Additionally, recent reports show that during the last fiscal year, 30,000 more convicted criminal aliens were let free bringing the grand total to 195, 900 during Obama’s presidency.

“It’s appalling that we’ve had to sue in federal court to get key information about the Obama administration’s release of 165,950 convicted criminal aliens,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in the report. “These documents show the Obama administration is lying when it says that its ‘enforcement priorities’ include deporting illegal aliens who have committed heinous crimes. And lawless localities that help protect illegal alien rapists and other criminals show that politicians at all levels put politics above the rule of law and the public safety. Where do the innocent victims of the illegal alien criminals this president’s appointees have set free go for justice?”
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He needs something to blame on Repulsicons.

Why not that his amnesty and release policies were caused by them not agreeing with his illegal acts, passing or putting forth a legitimate and comprehensive immigration bill overnight (a highly controvercial issue which he had 5 years to do when the liberals held the majority of congress.....and didn't) .

He wants to blame them for the repercussions of something he failed to do in 5 years of liberal leadership in congress, then waiting till the Reps are in power, to do it by illegal executive action, because they didn't come up with a reform option in a few months.

Typical liberal Obozo BS!

Air Farce 1, is scheduled to land in my town, tomorrow.
Obonzo will be spewing his drivel across the stateline in Oklahoma.

Hopefully, I'll be at work, long enough to miss the grand tard parade.

Prayers sent.....

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-commutes-sentences-46-convicts-165111278.html/

New total- 200,135 Convicts released

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Obama commutes sentences of 46 convicts
Obama calls for shorter sentences for nonviolent convicts
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Associated Press By JOSH LEDERMAN 1 hour ago

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Calling it an issue America can't afford to ignore, President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision Tuesday for fixing the criminal justice system by focusing on communities, courtrooms and cellblocks. He announced a federal review of the use of solitary confinement and urged Congress to pass a sentencing reform bill by year's end.

In a speech to the NAACP's annual convention, Obama also called for voting rights to be restored to felons who have served their sentences, and said employers should "ban the box" asking job candidates about their past convictions. He said long mandatory minimum sentences now in place should be reduced — or discarded entirely.

"In far too many cases, the punishment simply doesn't fit the crime," Obama told a crowd of 3,300 in Philadelphia. Low-level drug dealers, for example, owe a debt to society, but not a life sentence or 20-year prison term, he said.

With his speech to the prominent African-American advocacy group, Obama sought to put a spotlight on the need for new legislation as he mounted a weeklong push on criminal justice reform. A day earlier, Obama commuted the sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders — the most commutations a president has issued on a single day in at least four decades.

Upon arriving Tuesday in Philadelphia, Obama met with a number of former prisoners to discuss their experience re-entering society, the White House said. And on Thursday, Obama planned to put a personal face on the nation's mushrooming prison population with a visit El Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside of Oklahoma City — the first visit to a federal prison by a sitting U.S. president.


The assertive moves reflected a president eager to wield his executive power during his waning years in office to reduce harsh sentences, cut costs and correct disparities he said have disproportionally burdened minorities. Earlier in his presidency, as he spent his political capital carefully on major domestic priorities, Obama spoke cautiously and only intermittently about the need for smarter sentencing and other justice changes.
But as of late, public attention has been piqued by a serious of upsetting incidents across the country. In places like Baltimore, New York and Ferguson, Missouri, tensions between law enforcement and their communities have spilled out into the open, underscoring longstanding concerns among minority communities that they're treated differently in the criminal justice system.

Obama pointedly acknowledged that many people in the U.S. need to be in prison — "murderers, predators, rapists, gang leaders" — yet he said that in too many instances, law enforcement is treating young black and Latino men differently than their white peers.

"This is not just anecdotal. This is not just barbershop talk," he said.

The White House said Obama wouldn't hesitate to commute more sentences in the coming months if the circumstances were right. Yet Obama's ability to address the problem unilaterally is limited, as the White House readily concedes. So Obama has set his sights on the kind of comprehensive fix that only Congress can provide.

"The statistics cannot be ignored. We cannot close our eyes anymore," Obama said.

Working in Obama's favor: tentative but optimistic signs of common ground between Republicans and Democrats.
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Republicans in particular have spoken with growing enthusiasm about the need for structural change. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has been working on legislation that could reduce some mandatory minimums. Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island are backing a bill that would steer lower-risk inmates into programs where they could earn earlier release by participating in recidivism-reduction programs.

In another positive sign for the prospects of justice reform, a number of 2016 presidential candidates have taken an active interest in the issue. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has mounted a vocal push to restore voting rights to nonviolent felons who have served their terms and to make it easier for people with criminal records to get jobs. Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., planned to give a speech Thursday in the troubled city of Camden focusing on nonviolent drug offenders.

But not all Republicans were receptive to Obama's pitch. A group of 19 Republicans, led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, wrote a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Loretta Lynch accusing Obama of blatantly usurping congressional authority and using his pardon power for political purposes.

Since Congress enacted mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes, the federal prison population has multiplied, from just 24,000 in the 1980s to more than 214,000, according to Families Against Mandatory Minimums. In 2010, Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, cutting penalties for crack cocaine offenses. And last year, the independent Sentencing Commission reduced guideline ranges for drug crimes and applied those retroactively.

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Associated Press writer Nancy Benac in Washington contributed to this report.

Oh boy! more criminals on the street. Why don't we just let them all out. I'm sure they are all innocent.

I can hear the historians... across the globe saying , " we are going to come up with a new classification... for Obama 's socialist criminal obsession to destroy his own society, from the inside out "

On a side note...
Obonzo's visit to this region, coincides with the starting date of operation "jade helm" .

Coincidence? I think not.

n a side note...
Obonzo's visit to this region, coincides with the starting date of operation "jade helm" .

And guess who is Philadelphia Pa.. at an NAACP meeting ...
& what operation started ?

Coincidence? I think not.

Obonzo was in this area today.
The Choctaw and some other tribe recently settled a lawsuit... They were listed as the main groups Obonzo came to see.

...

On topic:
In a lame duck term, it's not uncommon for the occupant of the oval office, to start handing out pardons and commuting sentences.

Clinton did it, to pay back contributors.

Dubya did it... for whatever reasons.

Obonzo appears to still be pandering for votes.

...

Been having a blast, watching the tinfoil-hat brigade on other sites get all nutted up, at the mere mention of "jade helm".

I don't know any other sites.

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Your right, it was Mon/ Tuesday he was in PA & the NAACP meeting.


Yes previous Presidents have done it, as stated in my first post... but with only Americans & not as many.


Hhhaaaa.. I had a few tin foil hat messages also, apparently Jade Helm stopped her cable. I didn't ask why?