We also need to remember that this group was purposefully not catching illegals in the first place.
They have an order from Washington to not catch these people.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported over 142,000 people in 2023 – less than 5% of all 3.2 million migrants encountered at US borders.
In its 2023 annual report released last week, ICE readily noted its number of expulsions was double those of the previous year, but under Joe Biden’s presidency the agency is deporting far fewer people than it did under Donald Trump.
For example, in the immigration agency’s 2018 financial year, ICE removed 265,000 individuals from the US, representing over 30% of the 680,000 migrants encountered at the border that year, according to Customs and Border Protection’s figures.
During the fist year Biden was in office, statistics from CBP show border encounters almost tripled from 647,000 to 1.95 million.
That same year Biden issued new guidelines about how ICE should carry out immigration enforcement, which resulted in just 59,000 removals for the year, the lowest number of deportations in the last six years.
ICE’s latest figures show its agents deported 142,580 immigrants to about 180 countries from the US in the last fiscal year, including more than 44,000 from the interior and more than 98,000 from the border, the report said.
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As well as deporting people, ICE also monitors migrants who are in the US pursuing asylum applications or on parole.
The 2023 report showed the true scale of that operation, revealing at the end of the year the agency had 37,000 in custody waiting to be removed from the US, and that another 6.2 million people who were non-detained.
That figure has almost doubled since 2020 when ICE were looking after 3.3m active cases in total.
During CBP’s fiscal 2023, which runs from Ocotber 1 to Septemeber 30, more than 3,201,000 encounters with migrants were reported along the US-Mexico border, according to data from US Customs and Border Protection.
At this point, the immigration issue is hardly even worth talking about. It’s so out of control that it’s beyond human comprehension. The border is open and everyone is welcome.
Border patrol agents are cutting barbed wire in places like Eagle Pass, TX, which I visited recently, totally undermining the rule of law & TX law enforcement efforts. A federal judge told them to stop & so now Biden is asking the Supreme Court to overrule that lower court… https://t.co/BTZuqsO9tb pic.twitter.com/bW79evwHmc
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) January 3, 2024
I’m currently in Eagle Pass, TX witnessing the intentional destruction of our Southern Border by the Biden administration.
This video was sent to me by a Texas official. It shows how illegal aliens are being encouraged to invade our country while the fencing put up by Texas is… pic.twitter.com/pNmQUeXsyd
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) January 3, 2024