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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.
The numbers, though,
are in dispute. ICE officials said that it's unclear how many ultimately
might be released and that only 303 have been released from four
Arizona facilities so far, though all those are in Pinal County.
According to ICE, 2,280 detainees are still in custody in those
facilities.
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.-[Full Article]
