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Around congress but that apparently is what's happened today and he says it was the right thing at the right time. take a listen. >> we have a large population of people who are undocumented. i think anybody would agree that the first order of priorities should be people who pose a threat to national security, to public safety, those should be the first order of priority. >> and officials also say this will allow them to speed up the deportation process of serious criminals, patty ann? >> as we mentioned, some republicans say they're not happy about this especially out there in the southwest. ...

Federal sources say it's pretty clear what happened. the deportation process is so backlogged and overwhelmed that montano essentially had been allowed to stay on the streets for two whole years, waiting in line to be sent out of the country. the sisters who lost denise moser last sunday are more appalled at the political controversy than angry at montano saying we are dismayed and saddened that this tragedy has been politicized and become an apparent forum for the illegal immigration agenda. montano's lawyers could not be reached for comment on the charges, but his deportation now looks like ...

We knew that immigration customs officials were releasing illegal aliens who we had handed to them on a silver platter, who had criminal records, that they were releasing these dangerous individuals back into our community. >> reporter: it's not just the local officials who were up in arms. homeland security secretary janet napolitano hit the roof when she heard about it, with her department claiming it has reformed immigration enforcement and deported hundreds of illegal immigrants, she was asking the accountability questions. >> why is it that this individual was still out driving? he was in...

With illegal immigration. i mentioned before, we had 250 murders in the city of phoenix in 2006. that's now down to 125. >> how does stopping a person because you think they're here illegally, stop crime? how does it work? >> i'll repeat it again. >> you repeat it but you're not helping me. i don't see how you stop a guy from murdering somebody or stop a guy from robbing a house or robbing somebody on the street by throwing people out of the country here illegally. explain the mechanics to how that works. you pick up people. are you intimidating people? is that what you're doing? >> you arrest...

A guy from robbing a house or robbing somebody on the street by throwing people out of the country here illegally. explain the mechanics to how that works. you pick up people. are you intimidating people? is that what you're doing? >> you arrest somebody for a burglary and you do an immigration check. you find out they're here illegal. you do. you start the deportation process. you get that going. so it's the association between crime and illegal immigration. that's the nexus. that's what we're trying to tackle with this. what we had is we had law enforcement officers who in the past they had ...