Biden administration officials said the lower figure for arrests reflects the administration’s efforts to focus on immigrants who pose public safety and national security threats.
. ICE, created in 2003, has more than 20,000 employees in its civil, criminal and legal operations and an annual budget of approximately $8 billion.Biden campaigned for president promising a break with his predecessor’s aggressive enforcement approach and unabashed enthusiasm for mass immigration arrests. After taking office, Biden ordered a “pause” on deportations that upended the agency’s operations and left officers grumbling that their agency had been eliminated by administrative means.
“From day one, this administration has pushed policies that have made it effectively impossible to detain or deport around 90% of the illegal aliens currently in the United States, while at the same time releasing tens of thousands of illegal aliens into the country in the past year,” Homan, now a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said in a statement.
The average daily number of ICE detainees plunged to about 19,200 during the 2021 fiscal year, the lowest level since 1999, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.Approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, and the majority have been here for more than a decade, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
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