i.c.e. removals. so that's been a source of confusion and, you know, among some of the people looking at the data. the only cases that are included in i.c.e.'s data set are as you said, the witness returned. so if they give somebody a voluntary return and can't confirm that that person actually departed, they don't get counted. but we decided to only focus on the removals. and i did look a little bit at the returns. the returns as you would expect are less likely to have been convicted of a crime. that's the main thing i can do about the returns is that -- i mean, they appear to be, you know, consistent with i.c.e.'s discretion rules. that they appear to be the lower priority cases. as you said it's about 10% of the cases, so we were more interested in having the trend over time than complicating the analysis. >> anymore than it already is. >> yeah. >> right there. >> hi. i'm wondering if the data that you have at your disposal, does it have details on where they come from, which particular region in the

they send something, then a failure to appear. >> so no penalty whatsoever for ignoring what i.c.e. -how up. >> nothing. >> right. >> if you miss a hearing -- >> so this is de facto legalization, so everybody knows. the federal government isn't even trying to enforce immigration law. let me be clear, not even trying. >> one more quick. 41,000 undocumented family members fail to report to i.c.e. >> and they don't know where they are, and they're all waiting for the amnesty that's inevitably going to come. >> in virginia, they had a turnover from a republican administration. >> they did. >> scandal-ridden, we should point out, in virginia, to a democrat governor terry mcauliffe. the attorney general is mark tarrant. a very liberal man who is now saying to the people of the commonwealth of virginia, i will not enforce the statutory rape laws for girls 13 to 15, is that correct? >> yes, he's saying that in his opinion that specifically they don't need to make a report of crimes carnal knowledge of a child between the ages of 13 and 15 years of age. this is not law. this is an opinion that

us as an agency is that so much of the detention center and the concerns with respect to the detention center are out of our hands with respect to decision-making. you know, i.c.e. handles detention. so when there are larger issues that i think people have brought to our attention, you know, so, for example, people have said, look, the tvs there are really tiny. and so when the judge is beaming in, you know, what you see on the side of the detainee is, you know, the individual -- the families who are there, they're having a hard time seeing the judge. when we hear that kind of stuff, and people are very vocal with us to let us know what the issues are, you know, we can't buy new tvs and install them, right? dhs does that. it's their facility. what we can do is go to dhs and say look, we'd really like to you change these tvs out. and so i think what we're doing is on a very daily basis, having a lot of conversations with our counterparts at dhs about how to respond to some of the things that we can respond to. i think a lot of the criticism that we've heard overall from some of the advocates is that there is, you know, a generalized belief that families shouldn'

so that was something that we were interested in and we looked into and one of the reasons for that, is that most people who fall into one of i.c.e.'s priority categories fall into more than one of the categories. so, the example i was just about to say something about the immigration crimes, most people convicted of an immigration crime are apprehended at the border and convicted of an immigration crime so they're not just seen as an immigration crime priority they're also seen as a recent border crosser. most people reinstated are apprehended at the border and may also have been convicted of an immigration crime so a lot of people fall into all three priority categories or fall into two of the three priority categories. and the obama years, 58% of all removals fell into more than one pry orty category. so that's one reason why the numbers in that previous table were a little smaller than we expected. so in this table we looked at some more complicated scenarios where, well what if we change more than one of these priorities at the same time? what you can see is this does show that removals would fall more, you know, which is wh

so, that's how this type of discretion should work. means that i.c.e. is focusing on high priority cases instead of people who would benefit from discretion and also mean the psychological impact of discretion during enforcement and the politics of any changes to enforcement priority are quite different than those for a an application based style program where people would affirmatively seek relief. ...

so police officials in local and state municipalities are forced to hold the people. then i.c.e. comes in, picks them up, and deports them. then we have this repeated cycle of separation of families. is that immigration hold really necessary? no. but it is what is driving the problem. because these immigration holds are causing policing officials locally to indiscriminately hold people. they have no choice but to do it. we end up with massive deportation. >> then you have the president, really, again, i want to emphasize over and over again he has said to authorities, to his people. listen, prioritize. prioritize, prioritize. it's not happening. >> it's not happening. it's not happening at a time when the president keeps postponing promises that he keeps making. >> indi understand that. here is the chief executive of the nation. he really believes this. he believes that people are actually -- and he said so! let me ask you about another thing the white house has been highlighting. the number of unaccompanied minors they say it's dropped from the peak this summer. what is the real

so, we don't really see these numbers go up until we look really, significantly narrowing the criminal categories that we'll focus on, by not emphasizing level three i.c.eor not emphasizing violent criminals, all of these numbers are smaller than we expected. so that is something that we were interested in and we looked into and one of the reasons for that is that most people who fall into one of i.c.e.'s priority categories fall into one or more of i.c.e.'s priority categories. the example i was about to say something about, immigration crimes, most people convicted of immigration crime are apprehended at border and convicted after immigration crime. they're not just seen as immigration crime but border crosser. most people reinstated are apprehended at border and may have been convicted of immigration crimes. all people fall into all three categories or fall into two out of the three categories. in obama years, 58% of all removals fell into more than one priority category. that is one reason why the numbers in the previous table were a little smaller than we expected. so in this table we looked at some more complicated scenarios where, well, what if w

i.c.e. office acting uni uniformly? 200 people per state so anecdotally you'll get cases where people were not, you know, were not criminals, right, who came through the system. that's all true. but what is also true and i think it's incumbent upon everyone in this room is that it the government of the united states no longer wants to deport people from the interior without criminal records. what that means in practicality is that the threat of deport eight over the vast majority of undocumented immigrants in the united states doesn't mean that they won't get caught up in system and old court cases will wend their way through, but there's a sea change. three years ago two-thirds deport from the interior of the u.s. and last year it was half of that. mark showed you some of the data in their report. part of what i want to challenge all of you is the fact that you haven't heard it is because there are people in spanish language media and organizations in this city that have been misleading the public about what is actually going on in terms of t

i.c.e. identified 11 individuals nationwide who matched this criteria. all 11 were medically screened and found to be free of the ebola symptoms so far. said out of an abun dance of caution, they placed them into medical housing until the 21-day incubation period passes. >>> we are now 19 days away from the midterm elections. one race we've been following is getting much tighter. republican david perdue's lead on michelle nunn in georgia is down to a little more than 1 percentage point in the average of recent polls. there's been recent polls down there showing nunn up in the traditionally red state of georgia. part two this evening in our look at campaign spending over the final three weeks leading up to the midterms, tonight chief national correspondent jim engle how all local politics is about president obama. >> reporter: according to the latest numbers, this will be another record year in terms of political fund-raising and sp d spending, much of it on tv ads. >> it's approaching $1 billion cycle to date. >> reporter: ads of all kinds, one of which got more than 600,000 hits on youtube. ♪ just one of an avalanche of political ads

i.c.e.'s attention and brought him again when he was captured yet again. claims they did nothing or whatever they did wasn't good enough. sokeeps happening. now, if the president were to read your letter and this follow-up letter, and you had a chance to talk to him, what would you want to say? >> i would want to point out to him that it's the american people who have voted him into office. and there seems to be no concern for what we're going through and the issues that we want to bring to him. he -- thousands of us are waiting for at least an acknowledgment from him that he understands the pain that we are experiencing losing a loved one at the hands of repeat illegal criminals. he has taken the time to meet with them. he has addressed their issues, and he is now doing something about it in this amnesty move that he is going to make. when is he going to meet with the american people who have been affected by this? he is ignoring us completely. and this is what i want. i have met with other families who have been affected by illegals killing their loved ones. i mean, horrific accidents and horrific crimes. and we deserve

i.c.e. were of low level offenders. however releases involving individuals with more significant criminal histories were, by and large, dictated by special circumstance outside of the agency's control. so if you're in the white house, how do you handle this "usa today" report? >> i don't know. i mean i think if this is true, they obviously screwed up. >> do you think at the time they generally knew they were high level offenders, or do you think this -- >> they're saying, that these were decisions were made outside of their purview. but i don't know what that means. they haven't been specific enough to say, why would that be why would it be out of their purview? >> beyond why they did this, what they knew when they did this, bottom line should somebody held accountable, eric? >> here is the issue. the one issue did they release 2200 people with criminal background as harmful as kidnapping, sexual assault, drug trafficking and homicide? the answer to that is yes. the problem arises when months prior to the release the administration saider, we're releasing these people for cost cutting reasons but don't worry, they're low-level, non-violent offenders. they literally told us there wasn't

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so how do we make it fair to taxpayers? i think you should have to register with i.c.e., you should have to pay a small fine or perform community service as an acknowledgment that you've broken a law, you should have to hold down a law, pay taxes and obey our laws, and then i think you should be able to stay here and work. >> moderator: mr. roberts? roberts: my opponent says he's not for amnesty. in the last debate in hutchison, kansas, he said he was for amnesty. now, that's not shooting straight. that's not coming clean. here's the problem with immigration, the house has sent over to the senate a bill, very simple bill. it says that we should treat every country like we treat mexico and canada. if there's an illegal immigrant, sorry. humanitarian repatriation. it's illegal. you go back. the problem was when the president a couple of years ago said be you're 16 and -- if you're 16 and younger, you can stay. central american countries sent a flood of refugees. a humanitarian disaster. the first thing we have to do is secure the border. but that house bill has a boarder-secure -- border-secure part that is effective. but the sen

so i think there are mechanisms. we have a particularly, if there's reason to be concerned about an overstay, there are folks at i.c.e. who make a priority to track down the people who are particularly -- raise concerns from a terrorism point of view. i'm not questioning incentives. i'll try to be shorter. the -- this is not just a calculation of, well, who's getting more money? you know, who has got more tourists and richer tourists and what's the net benefit? the real incentive here is that if you were a french official and you told the french public, by the way, i have screwed this up so badly that you're going to have to come to paris and sit down in the embassy to go to disneyland, you would -- you know, you would lose the next election. and the same would probably be true in the united states. it would be viewed as a major faux pas to have screwed up the relationship with europe so that nobody could take their holidays in europe without going through this. so both sides will feel enormous political pain from doing this, as opposed to saying, i think i'm ahead of the game so i'll go ahead and cut off vwp. i don'

i.c.e., rather than just receiving it all stovepipe. this past summer i saw the virtue of bringing to bear all these components toward one mission, which we need to do more of, and so'd go to mcallen station, texas, i would meet with border patrol personnel, i'd meet with cbp personnel in blue uniforms, i'd meet with immigration enforcement personnel, cis personnel, fema, the coast guard, and literally the only person that all of them had in common in their command and control structure was me. there was nobody in between them and me and washington, and so we want to create a structure through a task force model that puts in place somebody geographically who is focused on southwest border, southeast border, investigations so we can bring a more strategic approach and have somebody at a slightly lower level than me focus on various parts of the country and what is needed there. and will approve the allocation of resources and the mission each year. so, to me that is a better, more efficient, more strategic way of developing border security. now, the graphic i showed with the hot spots, is my way of saying, hey, the proper approach, whether it's border security, avia

i.c.e. rather than receiving it all is the stovepipe. just this past summer i saw the virtue of bringing to bear all these components toward one mission which we need to do more of. sowhen i go to mcallen station texas i would keep the border patrol personnel and i would meet with cbp personnel and blue uniforms. i would meet with immigration enforcement personnel, cif personnel fame and the coast guard and literally the only person that all of them had in their common in their command and control structure there was no one between them and me and washington. a task force poll that puts in place somebody geographically who is focused on the southwest border southeast border investigation so he we can bring a more strategic approach and have somebody at a slightly lower level than me focus on various parts of the country and we will approve the allocation of resources each year. to me that is a better more efficient more strategic way of developing border security. now the graphic i showed that the hotspots is my way of saying hey the proper approach whether it's border security or aviation security is a risk-based strategy where you focus on where you see the hotspo

i.c.e. and border patrol in terms of raids and those types of things where local agents have violated national policy, and the follow-up and relations with the community have been completely botched and so we -- it's, i would say, you know, it's a medium grade at best. it depends on the agency, the day, the issue. there is certainly no coordinated i would say pro active long-term thinking focus on what and how the federal government can work with our immigrant and refugee communities in a way that will tackle what's most important to michiganders and detroiters which is how do we grow our economy. >> we kind of forget that we have that northern border. i think you're representing the midwest as well as the northern border for us here today. you're all phenomenal, the work that you're doing, and leaders in your sectors, and i'm just wondering, do you interact with other like entities around the country. nisha, are you working with other cities? senator lara, other legislators must be so envious. steve, i know you talked about other programs. i'd love to hear about that. >> yeah. we work with our sister moiyas across the country. most recently we launched with chicago and l.a. in an initi

i.c.e., immigration and customs enforcement for removal. we have enough to do, we want to stay on the highways. number two, the one that called for the regulatory checkpoints is none other than myself. so i am the one that made that call on that. the point was that, hey, this is a very cost effective and efficient way to do compliance issues as relates to the driver's license, compliance and also insurance compliance. and bottom line is, it detracted from our security operations because it sounded and feared that we were operating these all the time. even though they were consistent with the supreme court rulings on this. so i made a commitment to -- the senator said he didn't like it, he thinks it was detracting, so i shut it down. we will not be doing those unless the state legislature says we want the department of public safety to do these regulatory check points under these certain guidelines. >> what do the next few months have if the numbers keep dropping? this was a hot news item. a lot of journalists were in the valley for six weeks, some didn't leave. it seemed to have subsided. congressman you made the mention it could be because of the weather, because of other factors. how