U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement releases statistics for 2023 showing that only a small percentage of undocumented immigrants are deported, making up less than 5% of encounters with immigration officials. .
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, Border Patrol contacted more than 2 million people, while field operatives contacted an additional 1 million people. This brings the total number of encounters with illegal immigrants in the United States and near the border to more than 3.2 million.
and ICE latest statisticsIt was revealed that 142,580 non-citizens had been deported. This corresponds to her 4.4% deportation rate if encountered at the border.
Of these deportees, nearly half (49%) had a criminal record, with an average of 3.8 convictions per offender. The crime breakdown includes 1,457 murders, 1,450 kidnappings, 3,809 sexual assaults, 26,714 assaults, 2,760 robberies, 5,410 robberies, and 6,114 weapons crimes.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently said his administration had indeed deported a “record number” of individuals.
“Customs and Border Protection officials say they are now releasing more than 70% of the migrants who cross the border each day, and in some cases even more. Is that any surprise? ” Fox News' Bret Baier asked Mayorkas.
“I don't think so. I'm not surprised at all,” Mayorkas said, according to the newspaper. new york post.
“I know the data, and I will tell you that when individuals are released, they are released into immigration enforcement proceedings.” Mayorkas added that in 2023, a “record number” of immigrants will “Deported or removed,” it added.
Perhaps the Secretary was referring to the Biden administration's “record,” but the number of deportations in fiscal year 2023 was by far the highest under the 46th president, nearly doubling from 72,177 in 2022. , there were 59,011 deportations in 2021.
But Biden deported a total of 273,768 people in his first three years in office, less than 2.5 times as many as in Trump's last three years.
President Trump deported 709,227 illegal aliens from 2018 to 2020.
said Laura Reese, director of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center. Breitbart She said she disputed Mayorkas' claims.
“Alejandro Mayorkas can't play it both ways,” Reese said. “Customs and Border Protection has already publicly acknowledged that it has released at least 70% of the more than 10 million illegal aliens it has encountered over the past three years.”
“Then he can't play himself as an immigration enforcement chief based on deportation, especially when you scale the numbers and look at them,” Reese added. “The American people long ago stopped believing his lies.”
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