U.S. can't account for 600,000 fugitives

[maddezmom]

Source: Associated Press


WASHINGTON - Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave are grappling with a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and can't accurately account for the fugitives' whereabouts, the government reported Monday.

The report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general found that the effectiveness of teams assigned to find the fugitives was hampered by "insufficient detention capacity, limitations of an immigration database and inadequate working space."

Even though more than $204 million was allocated for 52 fugitive operations teams since 2003, a backlog of 623,292 cases existed as of August of 2006, the report said.

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has been estimated at between 11.5 million and 12 million. About 5.4 percent of them are believed to be "fugitive aliens," those who have failed to leave the country after being ordered out.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070326/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fugitive_foreigners

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. Are they in the same place as the missing billions of dollars?

(I think probably not)

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. "insufficient detention capacity..."

Time to crank up those Halliburton detention camps.

Get all those illegals, and the traitorous liberals who are hiding them, behind wire.

[primavera]

6. That seems to be the only response we can think of

At the rate we're going, we're going to need to convert the entire state of Texas into a vast detention camp in order to house all of the millions of people we have to imprison indefinitely without trial.

[rodeodance]

3. umm..they spend too much of their time keeping track of activists!

[maddezmom]

4. good one

:applause:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. But I'll bet their database of democratic activists is always up to date!

:thumbsup:

[BadgerKid]

7. Sound like more national ID talking points. n/t