Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions just released federal data showing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations have plummeted over the past three years despite big budget increases.
According to the numbers, ICE deportations have dropped by 43 percent overall since 2013. The figures show a larger 62 percent drop in deportations with regard to illegal immigrants caught within the interior of the country.
“In FY 2012, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed 409,849 aliens from the United States, with 180,970 coming from the interior of the United States. In FY 2015, ICE removed 235,413 aliens, with only 69,478 coming from the interior,” said a statement from the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest that Sessions chairs.
During the same time period, ICE’s detention and removal budget increased by about 25 percent, from $2,750,843,000 in 2012 to $3,431,444,000 in 2015.
“This dramatic decline in deportations is the direct result of policies implemented by the Obama Administration to get around plain law passed by Congress,” Sessions office said in a statement. “Indeed, the guise was to assert that the Government lacked the resources to deport more aliens.”
Back in 2011, former ICE director John Morton claimed his agency only had “resources to remove approximately 400,000 aliens per year, less than 4 percent of the estimated illegal alien population in the United States.”
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