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| Study: Foreign-Born Inmates Freed |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/21/2002 |
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Thousands of foreign-born inmates who should be deported after completing their sentences instead are released back into U.S. communities, where some go on to commit more crimes, according to a government report released October 7. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine said the Immigration and Naturalization Service is not identifying and properly processing many criminal aliens serving time in local jails, mainly county lockups. The report examined the INS's Institutional Removal Program in California and Florida and found many inmates who were 'potentially deportable prior to release went on to commit other crimes in the community, including drug possession, spousal abuse and child molestation.' The report is the latest in a list of problems at the INS that have been identified since the Sept. 11 attacks. The INS was criticized by lawmakers after it was learned that 15 of the 19 hijackers entered the United States legally on travel visas. Among other problems that have brought the INS heavy criticism since Sept. 11: The agency sent out student visa approval notices for two of the dead hijackers, failed to act on decade-old information that the gunman who killed two people at the Los Angeles airport had been linked by Egyptian authorities to a terrorist organization, and allowed four Pakistani nationals into the United States off a ship docked in Norfolk, Va., contrary to immigration service policy. Created in 1988, the INS jail program brought together lawyers, immigration judges and incarcerated aliens to expedite deportations. The goal is to complete judicial and administrative review proceedings before the criminal aliens complete their sentences. The INS said it would decide in the coming months how to improve the program. 'The INS agrees with the need for strengthened management oversight,' the agency said in a response included in the report. |
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