Biden is gutting ICE detention amid illegal immigrant crime wave

Published May 1, 2024 6:00am ET



We are three years into President Joe Biden‘s administration, and the crisis caused by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is only getting worse. It feels like there is no end in sight. 

Under Biden and Mayorkas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with whom I served will only be allowed to deport 125,000 illegal immigrants in fiscal 2025 — less than half of the illegal immigrants deported in fiscal 2019 under President Donald Trump.

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