GAO Report Criticizes Joint Fed-Local Enforcement Immigration Program
The GAO report is out on the program that deputizes state and local cops to work with feds to find and deport undocumented residents.
The report, prepared by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, says the government has failed to determine how many of the thousands of people deported under the program were the kind of violent felons it was devised to root out.
Some law enforcement agencies had used the program to deport immigrants “who have committed minor crimes, such as carrying an open container of alcohol,” the report said, and at least four agencies referred minor traffic offenders for deportation.
The program received $54 million from Congress last year. Among the findings[More...]
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