While the chaos at the southern border has been big news for months, not as many Americans are aware of a slower moving but equally consequential Biden immigration policy — the dismantling of immigration enforcement within the country. Even as record high numbers of illegal border crossers were caught and released into the country in 2021, record low numbers of aliens were sent home.
According to records my organization obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under Biden, deportations have dropped by 80 percent even from 2020’s low point during the pandemic lockdowns, and by 90 percent since 2019, the last normal year for immigration enforcement. We can expect that this year ICE’s performance will sink to the lowest number of removals since ICE was created in 2003, and about one-fourth the number removed in 2019.
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