The Biden administration\nclaims it is concentrating deportation efforts on dangerous illegal aliens with\ncriminal records. But removals of those individuals have declined sharply.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, deportations from the U.S. are at their lowest level since the mid-1990s, down 90 percent from 2019, according to a new report<\/a>. And, disturbingly, removal of aliens who have serious criminal convictions fell by 65 percent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n From Jan. 21-July 9, U.S.\nImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed 6,000 criminal aliens who had\ncommitted serious offenses. That\u2019s a far cry from the 17,553 such aliens\ndeported during the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe number of removals is\nshockingly low in some ICE field offices,\u201d says Jessica Vaughan of the Center\nfor Immigration Studies. \u201cThe Baltimore Field Office removed a grand total of\n32 aliens during [President] Biden’s first five months [in office]. This field\noffice covers all of Maryland, including Montgomery and Prince Georges counties\nadjacent to Washington, D.C., which have significant numbers of illegal alien\nresidents and which are hotbeds of MS-13 and 18th Street gang activity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n (The situation in the Old Line State doesn\u2019t figure to improve. Its General Assembly<\/a> recently enacted legislation prohibiting local and state law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration agents.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2015, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security classified 1.9 million non-citizens as removable criminal aliens<\/a>. At current deportation rate, their expulsions will be a long time coming, if ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, more foreign-born convicts are adding to the backlog. At the end of fiscal year 2019, 51,074<\/a> known or suspected aliens were in Department of Justice custody. That figure does not include the hundreds of thousands in state prisons and local jails. Texas alone has booked 356,000 criminal aliens<\/a> since 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At minimum, Americans should\nexpect ICE agents to be at prison gates with deportation papers at the ready when\nincarcerated aliens are released. But the declining removal numbers indicate\nthat ICE isn\u2019t even plucking that low-hanging fruit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With ever-expanding state and local sanctuary laws handcuffing immigration enforcement, and the Biden administration now designating additional \u201cprotected areas,\u201d<\/a> deportations are becoming increasingly rare \u2013 even for violent criminal aliens. That bodes ill for a country where violent crime is surging<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Biden administration claims it is concentrating deportation efforts on dangerous illegal aliens with criminal records. But removals of those individuals have declined sharply. Overall, deportations from the U.S. are at their lowest level since the mid-1990s, down 90 percent from 2019, according to a new report. And, disturbingly, removal of aliens who have serious criminal<\/p>\n