The Department of Homeland Security has started releasing hundreds of
illegal immigrants held in local jails in anticipation of automatic
budget cuts, in a move one Arizona sheriff called politically motivated
-- and dangerous. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Tuesday that Immigration and
Customs Enforcement released more than 500 detainees in his county alone
over the weekend. A spokesman for Babeu told FoxNews.com that ICE
officials have said they plan to release a total of nearly 10,000
illegal immigrants. Babeu described the move as a "mass budget pardon" and suggested the
administration was going to unnecessary lengths to demonstrate the
impact of the so-called sequester. "President Obama would never release 500 criminal illegals to the
streets of his hometown, yet he has no problem with releasing them in
Arizona. The safety of the public is threatened and the rule of law
discarded as a political tactic in this sequester battle," he said. An ICE official confirmed the plans without specifying how many illegal immigrants might be released. Spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said ICE had directed field offices
to make sure the "detained population" is "in line with available
funding." She stressed that ICE would continue to prosecute the cases
while keeping them under supervision...more
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