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Laura Frank and Burt Hubbard
"In a yearlong investigation, the Rocky Mountain News has found that for years criminal immigrants have gone free, while precious time and resources are spent on deporting people who are living in the country without permission but have no criminal record. Nationally, ICE admits it checks the legal status of only about 60 percent of immigrants who commit crimes serious enough to land them in U.S prisons. It recently set a goal of reaching 90 percent by 2009. A federal study last year found that illegal immigrants in prison had been arrested an average of eight times. Another federal study released in May found that it would cost $1.1 billion for enough detention beds to ensure the deportation of all criminals. "
