CORRUPTION CHRONICLES
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JANUARY 11, 2024
ICE Data Show Major Drop in Arrests, Removals of Criminal Illegal Immigrants under Biden
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Besides welcoming record amounts of illegal immigrants into the United States, the Biden administration further compromises national security by arresting and deporting “significantly fewer criminal aliens than the Trump administration,” according to government records obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). In a troubling report published this week the nonpartisan research organization analyzes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) criminal data from the first three years of the Trump administration and the first three years of Biden’s presidency and the results are incredibly worrisome. The records were obtained through the federal law known as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public stats disclosed by ICE. The Washington D.C. thinktank points out that the statistics contradict Biden administration claims that its disastrous immigration policies are designed to focus on criminal aliens.
In fact, back in the fall of 2021 Department of Homeland (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a memo saying that new guidelines for the enforcement of civil immigration law better focus resources on the apprehension and removal of noncitizens who are a threat to national security and public safety. Taking a jab at the Trump administration, the beleaguered DHS leader asserted that “for the first time, our guidelines will, in the pursuit of public safety, require an assessment of the individual and take into account the totality of the facts and circumstances.” In the document Mayorkas asserts that the majority of the more than 11 million undocumented or otherwise removable noncitizens in the United States have been contributing members of our communities across the country for years. As the administration strives to provide them with a path to status, the DHS Secretary writes in the directive, it will not work in conflict by spending resources seeking to remove those who do not pose a threat and, in fact, make our nation stronger.
The new CIS report shows that the Biden administration is flat out lying to the American public when it claims it prioritizes arresting and deporting criminal aliens who may pose a threat to national security or public safety. The group’s researchers examined data from fiscal years 2017, 2018 and 2019 then compared it to fiscal years 2021, 2022 and 2023 and found that “criminal aliens have been top beneficiaries of the Biden administration’s agenda.” The study clarifies that a criminal alien is a foreigner who most likely entered the U.S. illegally and has a criminal conviction or pending criminal charges. Under Biden there has been a 67% decrease in deportations of criminal aliens, a 57% reduction in arrests of criminal aliens, a 55% decline in immigration-related criminal convictions and a 44% decrease in detainer requests issued by federal authorities on criminal aliens in the custody of local law enforcement agencies nationwide.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/ice-data-show-drop-in-arrests/
