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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1368312" data-attributes="member: 12952">ICE often frees criminal immigrants if homelands won't take themOmar Kalmio was never supposed to get to North Dakota. The Somali national from Eagan was supposed to be deported because of his violent criminal record in Minnesota.Instead, he was released from custody when federal officials could not send him back to Somalia. Eight months later, he murdered four people in Minot in one of the most deadly crimes ever committed in modern-day North Dakota.More than 20,000 offenders released in the past seven years include hundreds of convicted murderers and at least five convicted of terrorism, data obtained by the Star Tribune show.In the Upper Midwest, including Minnesota, more than 85 percent of the more than 800 who have been released are what the government considers their most dangerous offenders. Many have committed additional crimes after being released from an immigration system that appears hamstrung and intensely secretive.The U.S. Supreme Court has twice raised serious constitutional concerns about holding immigrants indefinitely, even those with violent pasts. U.S. courts have ruled that federal authorities generally have only a six-month window to get immigrants with criminal histories out of the country, or they must release them. That time goes by quickly when the home countries stall the process or refuse to take them.<a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/267806141.html" target="_blank">http://www.startribune.com/local/267806141.html</a>“This may have been avoided had he been deported after that conviction in Minnesota,” said Kelly Dillon, the deputy North Dakota attorney who prosecuted Kalmio.</blockquote>

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