Criminal Aliens and U.S. Deportation Policy

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The paper analyzes the incarceration of the foreign criminals before they are returned to their home countries. It mentions the fact that many of their homelands refuse to take them back, and so these offenders cannot be released in the U.S. either. The paper looks at the issues faced by the INS in dealing in a timely fashion with the criminals, since the system has not been created to cope with such a load.

From the Paper:

"The issue is not a new one and has plagued the system for some time. On the one hand, there is pressure for the INS to do more to deport criminal aliens; on the other hand, there is pressure to do so in a timely fashion and to avoid jailing too many criminal immigrants in this country. It was reported in 1993 that between 1988 and 1990, 489,000 aliens scheduled to be deported could have been locked up, but the INS at the time had only 6,600 beds, forcing it to release more and more suspects. The General Accounting Office reported that in 1982, 24 percent of those apprehended were detained, while by 1990, only nine percent were held. In the mid-1990s, there were some 62,000 people under deportation proceedings in the New York district, while only about 750 a year were deported. This would mean it would take 80 years just to clear out the existing backlog (Popkin and Friedman 32)."

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