DHS Catches Only Half Of Illegal Immigrants Crossing The Border, Claims 81 Percent Success Rate
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JP Carroll
National Security & Foreign Affairs Reporter
11:24 AM 10/07/2016
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Federal agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Federal agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) detain a man in this handout picture taken in Dallas, Texas March 30, 2014 and released May 1, 2014. U.S. authorities have arrested 638 suspected gang members in a month-long sweep named Project Southbound aimed at associates of the fast-growing network of Surenos street gangs, an international criminal gang that started in Southern California, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Thursday. REUTERS/ICE/Charles Reed/Handout via Reuters ∧
An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report shows the federal department only nabs just over half of illegal immigrants crossing the border.
DHS caught 54 percent of illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2015, according to the internal report finished in May, and is not publicly available. DHS has publicly claimed that they successfully catch 81 percent of illegal immigrants.
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