A new report released by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest on Thursday found the number of fugitive criminal aliens in the U.S. is greater than the total population of citizens in New Hampshire’s largest city.
Approximately 179,027 illegal aliens who were arrested on criminal charges have been released into the interior of the U.S. not deported, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The 110,000 population of Manchester, N.H., pales in comparison to the number of fugitives still in the country illegally.
The number of residents in the Granite State’s next largest cities — Rochester, Dover, Concord and Nashua — is only slightly greater all together than the total of criminal aliens out on the streets.
There are more than 300 sanctuary cities, places that provide refuge to illegal aliens, throughout the United States. Under “sanctuary” policies, law enforcement does not honor detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who have asked local police to hold a criminal alien in jail for an additional 48 hours so he or she can be picked up by federal agents.
ICE’s 2015 annual report concluded 63,539 criminal aliens were removed from the interior of the U.S., substantially less than the number who were released.
