Is a CRIMINAL alien living NEXT DOOR to YOU? Revealed: Feds dropping busloads of convicted, VIOLENT illegal alien criminals into YOUR neighborood

Boston Globe sues federal government for releasing known criminals into the general population in secret.

A review revealed thousands of illegal criminals who should have been deported, were in fact secretly peppered across the United States, where many of them repeated or committed new offenses such as child molestation, rape and attempted murder.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to the Boston Globe, a Globe review of 323 criminals released in New England between 2008 and 20012 revealed up to 30 percent of the inmates committed new offenses.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials previously reported smaller numbers in the past, leaving the American people to ask why the numbers were skewed and why the illegals were not deported.

Newsmax asked the same question when it was discovered 156 undocumented illegal alien criminals "incredibly" became repeat offenders when they should have been deported back to their home countries.

The Senate's Judiciary Committee chair, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, admitted of 33,007 known criminal illegal immigrants were released from government custody in 2013, 1,000 were arrested again for new crimes. What's worse is they were then re-released a second time rather than getting deported.

In a letter to ICE Assistant Secretary Sarah Saldańa, Grassley wrote: "Incredibly, as though releasing these criminal aliens one time is not bad enough, ICE once again released from its custody at least 15 of these repeat offenders back into our neighborhoods, instead of deporting them.

"This practice is completely contrary to the president's promise to deport [f]elons, not families ... [c]riminals, not children ... [g]ang members, not a mom who's working hard to provide for her kids."

The letter was signed by Arizona and Alabama Senators Jeff Flake and Jeff Sessions respectively. It also asks Saldańa to identify the 156 criminals, their crimes, why they were released and why they were not immediately deported.

When Saldańa responded, she simply wrote, "as of March 29, 2015, ICE has removed 182 of these aliens. Subsequent to their FY 2013 release, ICE rebooked-in and rebooked-out 156 of these aliens as of March 29, 2015."

So Saldańa admitted 182 criminally charged illegals were apprehended, served sentences, then released. Of those 182 criminals, 156 were repeat offenders who were reintroduced to the prison system only to be re-released.

Why isn't the government deporting these people and why are repeat offenders being released from government custody?

The Boston Globe did their research to reveal the names of alien criminals were kept private until the Globe filed a lawsuit against the federal government for a list of the aliens authorities released across the United States.

Following the successful lawsuit, a judge ordered the names to be released, which were disclosed here.

ICE continues to keep immigration records private unless lawfully required to release information, despite several calls to make it public.

Chester Fairlie, a lawyer for a case calling for ICE reforms, explained: "There's a serious question of who ICE represents. Who do they work for? Public safety should trump any claim of privilege or confidentiality. It doesn't come from statute. It doesn't come from law. It comes from ICE deciding that that's how it's going to do things."

Immigration officials do not deny they have the power to decide how to interpret the law and continually stand by the general 2001 Supreme Court ruling stating immigrants cannot be held indefinitely in U.S. jails and must be deported within six months, or they will be freed.

ICE Director Sara Saldańa told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform it was not the fault of immigration officials but the fault of the US Supreme Court's decision to bind their hands.

 "So to sit there and say that the proud women and men of law enforcement in ICE are choosing to release criminals is absolutely unforgivable," Saldańa stated, adding, "And they do not go around trying to put criminals on the street.

Members of Congress have blamed ICE for its failure to take responsibility for the criminal alien population, particularly for ICE's decision to seek civil commitment for mentally ill criminal aliens, repeat offenders and a call to punish other nations when they refuse to readmit their own citizens.

House Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, believes ICE's release of criminals who are ineligible for deportation has led to thousands of preventable crimes. In a letter from ICE to Grassley, it was revealed 130 murders or attempted murders represent only a fraction of reoffenses since 2010.

Chaffetz responded by asking, "What's going on with Immigration and Customs Enforcement is one of the most infuriating things I think I've seen in this government yet." To Saldańa, he specifically referred to crime victims to ask, "How do you look those people in the eye?"

Jessica Vaughan, the director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, claims the reoffender rate only continues to climb as ICE glosses over statistics and refuses to make incidents public. Due to ICE's failure to provide accurate information, Vaughan believes the government should hold ICE accountable by tracking incidents and keeping statistics itself.

"This is exactly what the government should be doing to evaluate the impact of its own policy, to make sure that it's not causing harm," Vaughan explained. "They shouldn't be doing this blindly without taking the time to evaluate the effects of the policy, the public safety consequences."

Though ICE has yet to provide public information, officials claim they are "working to provide this data."

ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer reported: "ICE is committed to continually improving the agency's ability to track and manage ever evolving agency-related data, but the agency does not have statistically reliable information on recidivism rates prior to FY13."

Few believe ICE is telling the truth, particularly since it has provided inaccurate information in the past and continues to discredit itself.

When ICE claimed they freed 12,941 criminals between 2008 and 2014, ICE director Saldańa told the House committee they freed 36,007 in fiscal 2013 alone, adding they were among 86,288 released between 2013 and fiscal 2015.

Several examples of how ICE has mishandled criminal aliens, resulting in failed deportation attempts, murders, attempted murders, rape and other felony charges, have cropped up slowly, due to the organization's secrecy.

Critics believe ICE will not stop its pattern of keeping preventable incidents private in the future, leaving the unsuspecting public entirely ignorant of the criminals who walk among them.

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