Op-ed: How Biden Gave Up on Ridding Us of Criminal Aliens — Putting Us in Danger
By Jon Feere on January 22, 2024
The Biden administration has claimed for three years its immigration-enforcement policies center more on criminal aliens than its predecessor’s did.
As Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas put it in his 2021 memo, “By exercising our discretionary authority in a targeted way, we can focus our efforts on those who pose a threat to national security, public safety, and border security and thus threaten America’s well-being.”
It turns out it’s Team Biden’s policies that threaten America’s well-being.
The Biden administration has dramatically reduced arrests and deportations of criminal aliens, per new US Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.
Comparing President Donald Trump’s first three years (fiscal years 2017-19) and President Biden’s first three years (fiscal years 2021-23), there’s a 57% decline in criminal-alien arrests and a 67% drop in criminal-alien deportations.
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