When the Biden-Harris administration took office, they pledged to focus immigration enforcement on criminal aliens, rather than on “ordinary” illegal immigrants.
The result? More criminal migrants than ever before!
ICE recently released data showing that there are more than 600,000 foreign criminals on ICE’s docket who are not in the agency’s custody. Some are probably in state or local jails, but hundreds of thousands are walking our streets.
Is anyone surprised?
Remember, this is the administration that announced a 100-day moratorium on all deportations — criminals, terrorists, anybody — the day it took office.
It hasn’t gotten much better since.
My colleague Jon Feere, a former ICE chief of staff, compared criminal deportations in the first three years of this administration and the previous one. The results are sobering. Under Biden-Harris:
- A 44% drop in the number of notifications by ICE to local cops to hold criminal aliens arrested in local charges — called “detainers.”
- A 57% drop in the number of criminal aliens arrested compared to the first three Trump years.
- And a whopping 67% drop in the number of criminals actually deported.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — who was impeached by the House of Representatives for shenanigans like this — issued a memo shortly after Biden appointed him that handcuffs ICE agents.
The memo said only certain illegal immigrants may be targeted for enforcement, including, to be fair, those engaged in “serious criminal conduct” (though candidate Joe Biden said drunk driving was not a serious crime).
Another reason for known criminal aliens walking the streets is that the Biden-Harris DHS is strongly opposed to detaining any illegal immigrants at all, which is the only way to make sure they actually leave.
The average daily number of deportable migrants in ICE detention fell by almost half from 2019 to 2023, even though Congress has increased funding.
This is consistent with Harris’s writing or backing multiple bills while in the Senate that would have gutted ICE detention.
The letter from ICE with the new data blamed sanctuary policies that “can end up shielding dangerous criminals, who often victimize those same communities.”