That?s the name of the INS policy for dealing with illegal aliens and asylum seekers who manage to swim, crawl, jump, fly or ride to American soil. You catch them. You charge them with immigration violations and order them to be deported. Before they can be deported they get a hearing before the INS (due process, and all that). So, you give them a date for their INS hearing. Then you let the illegal alien go with instructions to return on their hearing date.
So, how do you think this is working? Do you think these illegal aliens are actually coming back on the assigned date for their deportation hearings? Here, from the Inspector General of the Justice Department, are the figures.
Of asylum-seekers who are released by the INS under the ?catch and release? program, 97% vanish and are never heard from again.
How about illegal aliens from countries that support terrorism? Surely our government is more careful about them, right? Sorry ? of those who are released before their hearing, 94% disappear.
Generally speaking ? 87% of illegal aliens released by the INS never come back for their hearings.
So ? Attorney General John Ashcroft announces that the Justice Department can, and will, hold some of these people until their hearing dates come up ? and all hell breaks loose.
Michele Malkin covers all of this in her latest column. Here?s your link: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20030430.shtml
So, how do you think this is working? Do you think these illegal aliens are actually coming back on the assigned date for their deportation hearings? Here, from the Inspector General of the Justice Department, are the figures.
Of asylum-seekers who are released by the INS under the ?catch and release? program, 97% vanish and are never heard from again.
How about illegal aliens from countries that support terrorism? Surely our government is more careful about them, right? Sorry ? of those who are released before their hearing, 94% disappear.
Generally speaking ? 87% of illegal aliens released by the INS never come back for their hearings.
So ? Attorney General John Ashcroft announces that the Justice Department can, and will, hold some of these people until their hearing dates come up ? and all hell breaks loose.
Michele Malkin covers all of this in her latest column. Here?s your link: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20030430.shtml
