Deportations of illegal alien convicts have dropped steeply since President Joe Biden took office, and he plans even fewer deportations of the population this year.
“Under the Biden administration, immigration enforcement has taken a back seat to open borders policymaking, and this offensive FY24 budget is yet another example,” Joe Edlow, who served as a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official in the Trump administration, told Fox News.
Edlow added:
With over 400,000 convicted criminal aliens in the non-detained docket, why is the agency charged with enforcing immigration laws hoping to remove less than 30,000 of them? It is time for congressional appropriators to make sure ICE enforces the law and restores a semblance of integrity to interior enforcement.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned or removed 38,477 criminal migrants from the United States in Fiscal Year 2022, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) budget…
