Donald Trump has done a good job cracking down on illegal immigration so far. But if a new report is to be believed, he has a long way to go in his bid to make America safe again. As the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reports:
Despite media reports of a massive crackdown by President Trump on illegal immigrants, just a tiny percentage of the nearly 1 million on the government’s deportation list have been arrested, according to statistics provided to Congress.
The 680 seized in recent sweeps by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents represent just .07 percent of the 950,062 with deportation orders as of May 21, 2016.
Responses to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, provided by Thomas D. Homan, currently the acting ICE director, revealed the struggle the agency faces as it moves to deport illegals, many with criminal records and slapped with “final orders of removal” after exhausting their court appeals.
He said that ICE has custody of just 11,006, or 1 percent, of the 950,062 ordered deported.
The takeaway here? The American government has not made enforcement of our immigration laws a priority. That this many people who were ordered deported are running around free is a reflection of the political establishment ignoring the interests of the American people in favor of enforcing the laws they like.
That has to end now.
AAN Staff
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