{"id":174983,"date":"2015-08-21T21:02:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=174983"},"modified":"2015-08-21T21:02:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:02:28","slug":"dhs-kept-secret-the-release-of-violent-criminal-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/dhs-kept-secret-the-release-of-violent-criminal-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Kept Secret the Release Of Violent Criminal Illegal Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local law enforcement \u2018perplexed\u2019 over controversial policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author vcard\">Adam Kredo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Obama administration officials only began notifying local law enforcement officials of the release of violent criminal illegal immigrants within the last two weeks, according to Arizona law enforcement officials, who say they have for years been kept in the dark about the release of illegal immigrants back into local\u00a0towns.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had been keeping secret its release of illegal immigrants\u00a0with violent criminal records from local law enforcement for at least two years, denying for a time that this was taking place, law enforcement officials disclosed to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The public disclosure of this practice, in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\u00a0frees criminal illegal immigrants back into U.S. communities, came to light earlier this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/obama-administration-releasing-violent-illegal-immigrants-back-into-u-s-towns\/\" target=\"_blank\">when Arizona law enforcement was made<\/a> aware that three illegal aliens with violent criminal records had been released back onto the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Local law enforcement officials and members of Congress have expressed outrage over the practice and have petitioned DHS in recent days to end a policy they described as \u201ccatch and release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least three illegal aliens released by DHS in recent weeks have been charged with serious crimes, including the beating of a 7-week-old baby and immolation of a person, according to local law enforcement officials and Rep Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/dhs-kept-secret-the-release-of-violent-criminal-illegal-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read mor<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/dhs-kept-secret-the-release-of-violent-criminal-illegal-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\">e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local law enforcement \u2018perplexed\u2019 over controversial policy Adam Kredo Obama administration officials only began notifying local law enforcement officials of the release of violent criminal illegal immigrants within the last two weeks, according to Arizona law enforcement officials, who say they have for years been kept in the dark about the release of illegal immigrants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}