BY: Adam Kredo Follow @Kredo0
October 18, 2016 2:49 pm
The issue also is expected to provide fuel to accusations by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that
his political opponents are loosening restrictions on immigration in a bid to increase the number of likely Democratic voters ahead of Nov. 8.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), a Trump ally and critic of the administration’s border policies, raised concerns that federal authorities are not taking affirmative action to deport these illegal immigrants who have been apprehended in the past months.
DHS’s most recent statistics, Sessions said in a statement, “[are] only half the story.”
“The 408,870 does not include those illegal aliens who evaded detection and successfully entered the United States,” Sessions said. “Earlier this year, Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest that for every one illegal alien who is apprehended, another evades arrest. This statistic reportedly has been confirmed by DHS, but the Obama administration refuses to release that information.”
“Using that rate as a baseline, that means approximately 408,870 illegal aliens evaded detection, for a grand total of roughly
817,740 illegal entries into the United States last year,” according to Sessions, who added that it is “notable” DHS’s statistics do not “indicate how many of the 408,807 apprehended aliens were actually removed from the United States.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/illegal-immigrants-surge-southern-border-ahead-2016-election/
