Illegal Immigrant Sex Offenders Are Escaping Deportation, Not Having To Join Sex Offender Registry
By Hans Von Spakovsky, Rachel S. Landsman
July 24, 2015 Daily Signal
July 24, 2015 Daily Signal
The murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco by a seven-time felon and five-time deportee has sparked a nationwide debate about sanctuary cities and immigration policy.
We recently learned that in one eight-month period in 2014, more than 8,100 deportable aliens were released by sanctuary jurisdictions. Of those, three thousand were felons and 62 percent had a prior criminal record. Nineteen hundred were later rearrested a total of 4,300 times on 7,500 different offenses.
But this debate over sanctuary policies has brought attention to another horrifying result of the federal government’s refusal to enforce our immigration law: the failure to deport convicted illegal alien sex offenders.
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