The practice of releasing dangerous criminal aliens into our neighborhoods began before Barack Obama and when Mrs. Clinton served as secretary of state she did nothing about it, according to the Washington Times. Another interesting fact is there is a law on the books aimed at stopping this and Hillary didn’t follow it.

This week, Donald Trump accused her of failing American families by not using the tools she had to force other countries to comply, such as halting the issuance of U.S. visas to their own citizens.

“She had the power and the duty to stop it cold, and she decided she would not do it,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday as he laid out his immigration policy.

Jessica Vaughn, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the problem has been around for some time. Hillary Clinton did nothing to address it, did not make it a priority and did not use the tools at her command. There are 23 countries deemed “recalcitrant” — refusing to take back their own citizens. China, Cuba, Guinea, Liberia, Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Haiti, India, Ghana, are among the worst offenders.

There are another 62 with which we have “strained relations.”

Most of these nations receive funds from the US.

There are 35,000 criminal Cuban nationals free in the US currently. Obama didn’t mention it to Castro when he opened relations with the communist nation.

There is a law to cover this. Under federal law, the government is supposed to stop issuing visas to countries that won’t cooperate in deportations. The Homeland Security secretary is supposed to issue a notification, but the State Department can also act on its own.

The power has been used just once, in 2001, with Guyana, and it was spectacularly successful. Within two months 112 of the 113 immigrants in the backlog to that country had been deported.

Calls to exercise the power under Mrs. Clinton and her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, and her successor, John Kerry, have gone unheeded. The problem has gotten worse since a 2001 Supreme Court decision banning indefinite detention.

Mrs. Clinton’s actions to deal with it are to recommend diplomacy and file letters expressing US discontent and do nothing to follow up.

“It’s kind of like a warning shot with a popgun,” Ms. Vaughan said. “These half-hearted efforts under Clinton’s tenure produced no results, except for small progress with India. The other countries pretty much ignored them, except for China, which strung us along for years promising to cooperate, but not ultimately doing anything.”

During his speech, Mr. Trump expressed anger over the death of Casey Chadwick as one example.

One of the most egregious crimes was byJean Jacques, an illegal immigrant from Haiti, who was sentenced to 60 years in prison for murdering Casey Chadwick, a 25-year-old woman from Norwich, Connecticut.

Jacques, 41, had a previous attempted murder conviction and should have been deported, but Haiti would not take him back because they said he could not prove he was a citizen.