[The Washington Times - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/30/border-agents-catch-and-release-most-illegal-immig/ ]
Immigration agents tried to deport only about a fourth of the cases
they encountered in 2013, said a report being released Monday from the
Center for Immigration Studies that shows just how much President
Obama’s policies have cut down on potential enforcement.
Jessica
Vaughan, the report’s author, called it a form of “catch and release.”
She said agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement received
more than 720,000 hits on immigrants who could be eligible for
deportation but filed charges against fewer than 195,000 of them.
Of those let go, 68,000 had criminal convictions on their records. All
told, more than 870,000 immigrants have been ordered removed from the
U.S. but are defying the government and refusing to leave.
