The Biden-Harris non-detained migrant scandal
By
Washington Examiner
October 1, 2024 12:01 am
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Six months after Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX) sent the Department of Homeland Security a letter asking the agency to tell Congress how many criminal noncitizens have been released into the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner responded late last Friday admitting that ICE is aware of more than 600,000 non-detained noncitizens with criminal histories in the country. This includes more than 400,000 convicted criminals and another 200,000 with pending criminal charges.
Of those 400,000, 13,000 had been convicted of murder, 15,000 had been convicted of sexual assault, and more than 50,000 had drug convictions.
This is an epic scandal, although not for quite the reason some Republicans claim.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are not guilty of catching and releasing more than 13,000 murderers into the U.S. The convictions tabulated in the ICE data are all domestic convictions. That is, the crimes were committed after they arrived. The data do not include convictions for crimes committed in other countries. The Border Patrol does not have access to that data. None of these caveats make the matter any less of a scandal.
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