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White House: No Input in Decision to Release Illegals

Feb. 27, 2013 2:44pm
White House: No Input in Decision to Release Illegals

In this undated photo, immigrants walk to hearings at the Stewart Detention Center in Lupmkin, Ga. A week before mandatory budget cuts go into effect across the government, the Department of Homeland Security has started releasing illegal immigrants being held in immigration jails across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP)

The Obama administration had no advance knowledge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s decision to release several hundred illegal immigrants from jail due to looming federal budget cuts, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

“This was a decision made by career officials at ICE without any input from the White House, as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution, as well as possible sequestration,” Carney told reporters Wednesday.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, was also unaware of the decision until it was announced, a department official told Politico.

ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said Tuesday the agency had reviewed “several hundred cases” of immigrants being held across the country and put them on “supervised release” in order to cut costs before mandatory cuts go into effect Friday.

“In order to make the best use of our limited detention resources in the current fiscal climate and to manage our detention population under current congressionally mandated levels, ICE has directed field offices to review the detained population to ensure it is in line with available funding,†Christensen said in a statement. “As a result of this review, a number of detained aliens have been released around the country and placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form of supervised release.â€

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) blasted the decision Tuesday, telling CBS News it was difficult for him to believe there were no other cuts the agency could have made.

“I frankly think this is outrageous…I can’t believe that they can’t find the kind of savings they need out of that department short of letting criminals go free,” Boehner said.

Carney told reporters those released were “low-risk, non-criminal detainees” and were being kept under a “less-expensive form of monitoring to ensure detention levels stayed within ICE’s overall budget.”

“All of these individuals remain in removal proceedings,” Carney said. “Priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety. This step affected a few hundred detainees, as you know, out of the over 30,000 currently in ICE detention.”

(h/t Politico)

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  • IFUDONTSTANDUPWHOWILL
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:16pm

    Carney told reporters those released were “low-risk, non-criminal detaineesâ€

    yeah, until they commit their next crime and we find out the truth. Then we get to hear about a 10 page rap sheet

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:32pm

      If you believe they weren’t in on it. I have a bridge in San Francisco to sell you and some development land in Florida to sell you as well.

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      Cavallo  
    • naughtycal
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:43pm

      You know thw White House gave the word to release these criminals because they are coming out quick denying it.
      The actions of those at ICE and at 1600 penn. ave are felonious. The actual offical that made the call needs to be brought up on felony charges for each and every felon border jumper he released.BTW jumping the border is a felony in itself.

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    • TEIN
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:45pm

      President “Teflon” O strikes again!!! The no-stick US President…Need to make a spinney wheel of excuses…spin it once a day for the daily “its not my fault” moment….

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      TEIN  
    • tonypro
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:16pm

      All their doing in posturing because of the sequestration cuts.

      Next will come the media campaign to say “see the republicans are making us set criminals free because we can’t afford to house prisoners anymore.”

      Wait for it.

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    • Exidor
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:18pm

      Yep, it was all part of Oblamo’s tantrum.

      I can just see him on the floor of the Oval Office kicking his feet screaming no, no, no, no!

      Have you noticed now its something crazy everyday? The acceleration and provocative stunts they’re pulling is unprecedented.

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      Exidor  
    • TomFerrari
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:23pm

      No input?
      What do you call HAND-PICKING the head of the agency?
      What do you call a chief executive who’s appointees wouldn’t/didn’t/don’t consult you prior to releasing hundreds or thousands of known criminals into the streets?

      I don’t buy it for one split second that this wasn’t on DIRECT ORDER of the White House. Granted, That-Guy is a mere puppet (which is why he works so little & vacations so much) so it could have been his handler, Valerie Jarrett… nonetheless, the order came from the WH.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:28pm

      What? No input in this thingie?? NO way Jose’………I’ll believe that when I see eyes that look honestly at us, even on TV. You can tell by the eyes, and the ayes have it.
      Folks, it’s time WE ALL get on the same page to get this thing straightened out. Maybe it’s time for all of we believers to pray to break the chains that bind us to the unjust beliefs of an infidel.

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      Bluebonnet  
    • starman70
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 8:58pm

      JAY: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!!!

      How does it feel to parrot the lines fed to you by His Imperial Majesty?

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      starman70  
    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:19am

      I got some huge-empty-spaces in the PROG-COMMIE-CONGRESSMEN’S HEADS to sell-y’a!!

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      G-WHIZ  
  • doomytram
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:15pm

    Obama “projects, lies, deflects, blames, pivots, projects, lies, deflects, blames, pivots.” Repeats.
    The sycophantic media will make something up, like the one, is way too advanced to be kept up to date on events. He skips his security briefings, because he is asleep in his bed, and he reads or doesn’t read about on his ipad inbetwixed episodes of sports center.

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    • Vision Harry
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:24pm

      The first line of the story says it all, The Obama Administration had no Knowledge”

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    • loveoursoldiers
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:28pm

      The media that he dismissed from the dinner the other night should smarten up and not show up when Carney wants to spread more lies and undo a serious situation.and blame everyone but his boss He wants to play games.. let the games begin.

      The power is shifting in this country. This madman has crossed the line and he will be made to account for it.
      You can only push good, god-fearing Americans so far.. then they stand up for their country and for what is right.
      ‘

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      loveoursoldiers  
    • Heffe44
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:30pm

      I guess you budget cutters are starting to see the real life consequences of your jihad against government.

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      Heffe44  
    • Xanderson
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 5:20pm

      Exactly, Vision! Imagine the MSM if George W Bush pulled a “Sgt. Schultz” every time the government did something despicable! What DOES he know about ANYTHING?

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      Xanderson  
  • GoodCook
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:14pm

    Hey Janet did they buy you a ticket before they threw you under the bus? Notice uber Dumcrats he never knows anything about anything so how really smart is this dufuss and thief. Wise up being a so called racist homophobic radical facist democrat just isn’t cool any more. Your just the Charmin of this admistration. They use you and then throw you down the swirly….. You’re meaningless little disposable people that are no longer neeeded to peform their evil. Juwst try and collect on their promises. They belkieve in cradle to grqve care. If you makie it to the cradel (Think their support of Abortion then thhyf’ll tell you when you go to the grave (Can you say Euthinasiat) whedn you no longer can pay their tx bill. Thugs and extortionists all.

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    • richauthor
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:27pm

      If an ICE official REALLY did release these illegal immigrants before being told to do so (AND I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT), then I want confirmation of his/her firing. Any career-level bureaucrat who takes this much responsibility on his/her own has no business working for the U. S. Government.

      But this is pure, unadulterated horse puckey! Choom-boy and Big Sis allowed this to happen. And they are lying to cover their Chicken-Little act.

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    • iampraying4u
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:22pm

      dont u love it when bathhouse berry tries to scare us

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      iampraying4u  
    • jblovesAmerica
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 4:32pm

      As said earlier-no one has the power /.authority to do this-no one would ever go this far without permission from above.
      we are being held up for dummies

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      jblovesAmerica  
  • gbfreak
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:11pm

    Liar….liar….socialist pukes on fire!!!!

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    gbfreak  
  • Sharon Rose
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:10pm

    Is anybody else sick and tired of all the lies coming from this administration?

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    Sharon Rose  
  • common cents
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:08pm

    The main Constitutional reason to have government, and they can’t even manage to protect our nation’s borders.
    Yet they can do everything else that they are not Constitutionally permitted to do, time to “fix” the problem, seems they don’t remember They Serve Us! time to remind them……

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    common cents  
  • Gamaliel
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:07pm

    Obama is at war against the American citizen and is mocking us in every way he can. He seems to be wanting to provoke a civil war.

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    Gamaliel  
  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:06pm

    While the Illegals were being released, did obama dress up like Saddam Hussein and fire an assault rifle in the air.

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    Outlaw_Josey_Wales  
  • mrunner
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:06pm

    How much incompetence is this President willing to confess to??? How long will the American public be silent? Even the low information voters will wake up eventually!!

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    mrunner  
  • loveoursoldiers
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:04pm

    ya sure
    and he didn’t know what happened in Benghazi..because he went to bed
    and he wasn’t involved in the lies that he told after
    blah blah blah
    and Rosa Parks is one of the greatest heroes ( OK) but then every single soldier that DIES for our country should HAVE A STATUE TOO.
    I know many kool-aid drinkers are stupid but even they are catching on that something is not right with this guy
    Please write to your senators.. I did.. they need to know what is expected of them.. put some heat on their butts to get to work for the American people and not for the madman in the WH
    Speak out
    They obviously got the message that Americans from all parties are speaking out against the deplorable behavior of the person in the WH.. who would purposely set out to harm Americans to get his own way
    keep the pressure on
    he must be made to account
    And we know HE directs everything that goes on and then blames his flunkies who don’t dare say he was the one who ordered.. :”stand down;\” or “release prisoners”
    Is there any question that a unstable person such as this might send a drone to assassinate anyone he sees as a threat to his agenda to destroy our country from within?
    FYI Rand Paul as asked Brennan x 3 letters if it could ever happen that drones would strike Americans here? no answer
    Brennan must not be confirmed
    and there is no doubt that when the person in the WH orders drones to assassinate Americans that he will say.. ‘I had no idea until I read it in the p

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:03pm

    I’ll throw out a hypothetical for you all,say the ‘R’s controlled both houses with a super majority. Show of hands how many believe they’d impeach AND throw the POS out of office? I’ll go out on a limb and say it would never happen and the reason is simple,we have a one party system in this country and we need a two party system ASAP.

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  • PapaJohannesPatriot
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:02pm

    Career officials? Usual gov’t BS. Give us their names. By what authority did they make the decision? Did they have the authority to make the decision?

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  • TheRef
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:02pm

    We will dub this. ICEwatergate. The White House knew!

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    TheRef  
  • theBru
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:02pm

    and we are to believe that these were low risk, non-criminal detainees??? So, they were locked up behind bars because of why??? Non-criminals behind bars< that was that for their own safety, were they homeless??? And we released these because bhoLE wants to go back to Hawaii??? He could get on TV and say he was going to Disney World and they would give him a free trip!!!
    Least, baynomore is finally talking out of one side of his mouth for a change…bhoLE makes great decisions, and then blames them on the person on the opposite of the fence…what a guy!!!

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    theBru  
  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:01pm

    Officer Barbrady, Shananagians. I call Shananagians.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvK1F-Thrzk

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  • Xiccarph
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:00pm

    ….Not directly maybe…but Obama runs his administration like a true micro-managing King, and he makes sure the people he has out is the system *clearly* KNOW what he would want without directly telling them what to do.
    So technically he may be telling the truth that ‘no orders came from the White House’…they simply did exactly what they knew he wanted and expected them to do to fulfill the Master Agenda.

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    • loveoursoldiers
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:33pm

      but didn’t he say recently in the skyisfalling litany that prisoners would be released? and now they have.. he knew about it.. he ordered it.. there is NO way he did not know
      call for impeachment

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      loveoursoldiers  
  • 3monkeysmomma
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 3:00pm

    This is treason.

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    3monkeysmomma  
  • CWPrequired
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:58pm

    “supervised release” ??? how funny is that! You have got to be dumber than a box of rocks to buy the crap coming out of the white house or any democrats mouth these days.

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    CWPrequired  
  • The-Monk
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:58pm

    “White House: No Input in Decision to Release Illegals”

    Yeah, no input of suggestions…. it was “output” of suggestions.

    See how easy it is to see their lies.

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    The-Monk  
  • Ben__Franklin
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:57pm

    Really? Knew nothing? As before with this President, he knows nutt’in about nutt’in.

    Funny how the Administration, led by this Poser and Chief, had no problems getting their hands dirty getting ICE to look the other way and not arrest known illegals. Hell part of ICE it self is suing the Whitehouse because they are being told not to do their jobs.

    At What point Republicans – At WHAT POINT do any of you spineless turds in Congress start the impeachment proceedings?

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    Ben__Franklin  
  • Dispman
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:53pm

    I’m calling B.S. on the White Houses’ response….

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    Dispman  
    • TotallyNotATroll
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:58pm

      Blasphemy, the great one has spoken. I am sure that in no way did the President have any idea what anyone under the Executive Branch was doing. He was too busy skeet shooting.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:53pm

    Says the regime that knew nothing of the Benghazi attack ie act of war. Tell your BS lies to your brain dead supporters they’ll believe all of it. This is Chicago thug politics at work here,release the illegals because we’re broke,problem is the cuts haven’t happened yet and probably won’t with the candy@sses in our one party system. These illegals shouldn’t be here in the first place they should be deported with the other 20 + million illegals already here.

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:59pm

      Another Amnesty move by Berry and Friends with a Budget as the excuse. One would have thought letting go Government workers of ICE would have been the better choice. After all, the Whitehouse is paying them to not do their jobs.

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      Ben__Franklin  
  • theonlynana
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:52pm

    Hogwash! BS!

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    theonlynana  
  • woodyee
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:49pm

    You LIE!

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    woodyee  
  • Fubared
    Posted on February 27, 2013 at 2:48pm

    That loud thump was Jared Nappyheadtano being rolled under an unused deportation bus. All is well, taco bell has the bell grande on sale with free cinnamon twists.

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    Fubared  
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