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Chaffetz scolds Obama administration for failure to deport undocumented criminals

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, slammed the Obama administration Thursday for not deporting thousands of undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes — who he said often commit additional crimes, including murder.

Sarah Saldaña, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), fired back that Chaffetz's accusations are misleading and are being "bandied about as a political football."

Among other witnesses at a hearing who countered Chaffetz was former Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. He suggested Congress is partially to blame for problems by failing to pass immigration reform.

Chaffetz asked an aide to hold up a picture of the Notre Dame football stadium and said it could not hold the 80,000-plus criminally convicted undocumented people whom ICE decided to release in recent years.