Tulsa World
OKLAHOMA -- A federal immigration official wouldn't say this week what has happened to more than two dozen deportable immigrants recently released from Oklahoma prisons after serving time for crimes including first-degree rape, drug trafficking and lewd molestation.
The state Department of Corrections provided a list of foreign-born inmates released during May and June to the Tulsa World.
At least 25 of them were supposed to face Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency that imposes immigration detainers.
Officials were unable to verify that, saying it would be an "administrative burden" to give the status of each of the inmates.
The task would be too time-consuming, said Carl Rusnok, a spokesman for the immigration agency.
Posted by tyne at July 12, 2007