No, that isn’t my practice when I go fishing – that is the nature of US policy towards illegal immigration according to a new study.

Illegal immigrants who were caught but released in the United States may have been re-arrested as many as six times, Justice Department data released Monday indicates.

The findings by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine are based on a sampling of 100 illegal immigrants arrested by local and state authorities in 2004, the latest complete data available. They show that 73 of the 100 immigrants were arrested, collectively, 429 times — ranging from traffic tickets to weapons and drug charges.

Fine's office said its audit could not conclude precisely how many of the 262,105 illegal immigrants charged with criminal histories that year had been re-arrested. "But if this data is indicative of the full population of 262,105 criminal histories, the rate at which released criminal aliens are re-arrested is extremely high," the audit noted.

Before we do any sort of amnesty, we clearly need to step up the enforcement end of things so that we donÂ’t have releases of individuals with a half-dozen criminal violations.

But then again, maybe I’m wrong – perhaps we need these hard-working criminals to commit the crimes that Americans won’t commit.

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