Arrests of illegal alien workers have dropped abruptly under President Obama, according to recently released figures.
Criminal and administrative arrests along with indictments and convictions of illegal laborers at work sites have all fallen by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009 – and not due to illegals returning home.
“The figures show that Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves — but at the expense of Americans’ jobs,” said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
Rep. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
Read the Washington Times report here.
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