The office of Immigration and Custom Enforcement may soon have to change its name to the Agency for Criminal Alien Release.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, ICE Director Sarah Saldaña admitted to Congress that the agency has released between 30,000 and 40,000 criminal aliens over the last few years. The director said this was due to legal restrictions on how long the agency can detain individuals.
“Whether it’s a result of protracted appeals or refusal of a country to accept its nationals back, this decision accounts for somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 convicted criminal alien releases in recent years,” Saldana said to Congress.
Also during the Congressional hearing, Saldaña admitted that another 139,000 “undocumented criminals with final orders of removal” from the country are currently at large across the country and basically untraceable.
That is just the tip of the iceberg of the total 2.1 million criminal alien population according to ICE’s Secure Communities office.
Saldaña said she was proud that 59 percent of the 235,000 illegal aliens deported in 2015 had criminal records.
“There are also times when despite our best efforts (criminal illegal immigrants) get released from our custody,” she continued. “ICE doesn’t willy nilly release people. We have to have a final order of removal from the immigration courts and proper travel docs to the country of origin for that particular national.”
ICE’s website tells a different story. They brag on the headline that there has been a “surge of enforcement,” and they’ve arrested 39 criminal aliens or .0002% of the population.
(h/t MRCTV)
