Inspector general: ICE 'not deporting all the aliens who could be deported'

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is suffering from a significant shortage of deportation officers. The shortage has limited its ability to process and remove more than 2 million illegal immigrants it tracks, according to an Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General report released Thursday evening.

The report, originally produced on April 13, looked at four ICE field offices and found deportation officers overseeing “non-detained” aliens were each responsible for 1,700 to 10,000 people. Among officers supervising detained aliens, each official oversaw 65 to 104 people.