DHS deporting fewer criminals this year

Published December 23, 2015 3:34am ET



The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that the number of deported criminal illegal aliens increased in fiscal 2015. However, a look into the agency’s own data casts doubt on that claim.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that 91 percent of all removals and returns in 2015 were criminal aliens and that “the number of convicted criminals removed from the interior continued to increase.”

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