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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Associated Press has learned that federal immigration authorities have released a number of detainees around the country to save money.

According to the Arizona Daily Star, at least 100 were released from the Eloy Detention Center.

Gillian Christensen, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington, D.C., said Monday that field offices have been directed to review their numbers of detained immigrants to ensure the jail populations stay within budgeted resources.

Christensen says an unspecified number of immigrants have been released and placed on more cost-effective forms of supervision.

She says she did not have further details about those forms of supervision or how many people have been released.

Christensen says the agency will continue to pursue the cases in court and deport people when necessary.

Immigration activists say the agency most likely released detainees in California, Texas, Florida, and New Jersey.


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    Steve wrote...
    Yet another example of failed immigration
    February 25, 2013 7:52 pm
    brought to you on behalf of President Obama.
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    Steve wrote...
    This kind of dead brained actions
    February 26, 2013 5:49 am
    are why we have more than half a million ICE fugitives, because they fail to show for their hearings when released with a promise to appear.
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    yrreta wrote...
    "...immigrants have been released and
    February 26, 2013 5:59 am
    placed on more cost-effective forms of supervision." Paraphrased as, immigrants released on an undisclosed street corner near a Home Depot where they can become someone else's problem.
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    Wrote wrote...
    Disgusting
    February 26, 2013 6:10 am
    action by the feds.
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    Michoacan wrote...
    Arizona's go soft on illegal employers
    February 26, 2013 6:57 am
    policies are costing us big time. Our legislature could certainly pass laws that would aggressively go after those employers and levy huge fines against them to help offset the cost of detaining those whom they induced to illegally enter the country. But no, those same employers contribute to those legislators' campaigns. That's Arizona for you. Fake outrage followed by sitting on their hands.
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    yrreta wrote...
    How does the employer become
    February 26, 2013 8:18 am
    responsible if they hired an individual with proper documentation that later turns out to be stolen and/or forged after it passed the required sniff test? My thoughts are there are more being hired with stolen documents then there are employers knowingly hiring illegals. Seems like every time we here about MCSO rounding up a group of illegals at a business, it always listed due to fake/stolen documentation. If they went after a group of illegals that were knowingly hired without documentation, someone would scream it was due to racial profiling and not police work or identity theft.
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    2cents wrote...
    See America?
    February 26, 2013 8:27 am
    I told you that if sequestration would become necessary, you would all pay. And to begin with, I think I will use it to justify releasing my loyal fans back into circulation. And let this be a lesson to my opposition. No matter what the circumstances, I have a talent for marching right over it.
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    itlldo wrote...
    Micho, wake up!
    February 26, 2013 8:32 am
    This article is about releasing detainees, not passing on the responsibility of law enforcement to the employers in a politically motivated method to shirk their job. Just great-put the employers in jail to take the focus off their non-enforcement policies.
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    Michoacan wrote...
    The article is about budget woes leading
    February 26, 2013 10:37 am
    to dire consequences, it'ldo. You may have missed that, what with it being in the headline and all. I offer a partial, forwarding thinking solution, which also eludes you.