Under an Obama Administration restructuring of federal sentencing guidelines, thousands of federal inmates convicted of felony drug crimes are going to be released in early November before their sentences are up.
And according to multiple reports, up to 2,000 of these first 5,500 inmates set to be released into the population are foreign migrants, at least some of whom may have ties to Mexican and other overseas drug cartels.
It is estimated that the prison terms for these convicted felons are being slashed by an average of 25 months, and most of those eligible for consideration have long sentences for major crimes.
The Justice Department estimates that roughly 40,000 prisoners could be released using the program in the coming years.
The changes are part of a national effort to rethink decades-long sentences for drug offenders, who are roughly half the federal prison population.
And while the Obama Administration is promising to immediately deport any illegal immigrants released under the program, weak border security means there’s literally nothing to stop them from crossing into America again.
And it remains unclear how many of these illegal immigrants convicted of drug offenses may have ties to cartels that are flooding America with drugs. Mexican cartels are currently estimated to control the majority of the American drug trade. And these cartels have a long history of using illegal immigrants as both drug smugglers or “mules” and drug dealers.
The Justice Department issued new clemency criteria last year designed to encourage thousands of additional inmates to seek an early release. Two years ago, then-Attorney General Eric Holder directed federal prosecutors to avoid seeking mandatory minimum sentences — which limit the discretion of judges to impose shorter sentences — for nonviolent drug offenders.
Though sentencing guidelines are advisory rather than mandatory, judges still rely heavily on them in deciding on prison sentences. The guidelines recommend sentences that factor in the types and quantities of the drugs. The commission in April voted to lower recommended sentences across all types of drug offenses — meaning, for instance, that a cocaine package of a given size would now be linked to a shorter range of punishment than before.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
The jackass in the White House needs to be committed to a mental institution. What person in their right mind could even conceive of such an action. Releasing thousands of convicted felons into open society IS INSANITY. Not to mention the millions of dollars taxpayers paid to law enforcement departments to capture and convict them in the first place.
What do you expect from the Illegal, racist, Muslim, Anti-America Son of a Bitch?
That’s the way it has been for the President of the black race and most of the offender are black.
And if you deal in drugs you are not innocent of non violent crimes, either directly or indirectly their business does create crime, mugging, robbery’s even murder to get their drugs or money for their drugs.
Drugs are one of the worst crimes.
At one time the mafia would murder people but would not deal drugs. Drug dealers and users are the scourge of this earth.
Just wait until you see his executive clemency at the end of his term.
Hurry up Donald and save us from this monster President.
Obama needs more money, that means he needs these pushers back out on the streets. The dumb=ass.
So lets see, open the borders and let all those criminals come into the country.
Free known criminals.
Now take away law abiding citizens guns.
This guy is a clown. A POS. Pure Communist bastard.
Obama does not have the right to put the citizens of the USA in jeopardy
Are any of your citizens doing anything to stop this insanity
Makes me want to clean and oil up all of my guns, which none are registered as they were bought from friends.
And please tell me those of you who support this man. What in the world do you see in him that makes you think he is a great president?
I don’t know why white people that are even Democrats could have voted for him the first time let alone the second time, but most of the black people vote black no matter who or what then do.
big example Marion Barry was even re-elected after his conviction and sentence.
Then we have others black Mayors guilty of crimes.
Ray Nagin N. Orleans
Sheila Dixon Baltimore
Kwame Kilpatrick Detroit
James Usry Atlantic City
James Sharp Newark.
Prop 47 in california is not about educationof kids. It allows the release of felons after 8 hours in jail!!!!
This guy needs psychiatric evaluation real fast.
This president has lost all credibility, in my humble opinion.
I have to agree this president is now Jimmy Carter ‘s best friend since he’s not the worst president anymore. However I have to agree with some of the releases. If we are going to legalize marijuana how is it right to lock up someone who only uses this type of medicine? I say leave room in prison for the real lowlifes. I.e. murderers, rapists and all corrupt politicians!!!
” ELECTYLE DISFUNCTION”
We had better get Trump in the WH or our country is doomed! #DonaldTrumpForPresident!
Carson for president.
It’s now at this point, that it should be plainly evident, that Barack Obama is clearly destroying this once proud nation. Why he has not been charged with treason, is astounding! His goal, from the start, has been to subvert the morality of the people of these United States! Had I the money, I would move my family out of this country.
Sadly, this is the kind of poor judgment I have come to expect from President Obama. Inauguration Day 2017 can’t come soon enough.
Hey, hey, he said that he would “transform” America.