Posted on 01/05/2022 6:11:20 AM PST by Red Badger
The Biden administration has yet to release a report that details the number of illegal immigrants removed from the United States in 2021, keeping the public in the dark about its handling of the immigration crisis.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not release its annual report in 2021, a departure from standard agency practice since at least 2011. In each of the last nine years, ICE released the report in the final weeks of the calendar year, most recently on Dec. 23, 2020 during the Trump administration.
It is unclear whether ICE has completed the report, which provides a lengthy summary of the agency’s enforcement and removal operations, as well as immigration-related security threats. A spokeswoman for the immigration agency told the Washington Free Beacon a release date for the report has not been determined.
The absence of the 2021 annual report has prompted outrage on Capitol Hill. Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) questioned the motives behind the White House's secrecy on the topic of immigration.
"During record-breaking levels of illegal immigration, DHS and ICE have taken steps to dismantle interior enforcement operations that keep our communities safe from criminal aliens," Hawley told the Free Beacon. "I’ve been calling for transparency into these radical policy changes for months. If ICE is intentionally hiding their annual report from the public, then it’s safe to assume it doesn’t show any improvement; it shows failure."
The administration's decision not to release the ICE report marks the latest example of Biden's failure to live up to transparency standards set by both its Democratic and Republican predecessors. The Free Beacon in November reported that the White House violated a congressional statute with its failure to release its report on the number of illegal immigrants in the United States. The 2021 fiscal year saw more recorded illegal border crossings than any time in U.S. history.
This latest evasion comes as just 35 percent of voters approve of Biden's handling of immigration, according to a RealClearPolitics average of recent polls. Critics of the president's immigration policy accused Biden of hiding statistics as a way to avoid bad press.
"It's absolutely shocking that the release of the ICE report hasn't happened," former ICE chief of staff Jon Feere told the Free Beacon. "I assumed, at worst, they'd put it out on New Year’s Eve when nobody is paying attention, but even that didn’t happen."
"I can't imagine the outcry if we had not produced this report under the Trump administration," Feere said.
Much of the information provided in the agency’s annual report goes beyond deportation statistics. The 2020 report, for example, summarized results from operations related to stopping COVID-19 relief fund abuse. In fiscal year 2020, ICE and its law enforcement partners seized more than $18 million linked to pandemic-related fraud and criminal activity.
An individual familiar with the production of the report in past years, who asked not to be directly quoted, speculated that White House dysfunction may be responsible for the delay. The individual said more left-wing members of the Biden administration, such as Domestic Policy Council deputy director for immigration Esther Olavarria, may have disagreed with more "moderate" staff, such as domestic policy adviser Susan Rice, on a strategy for releasing a report that could be seen as unfavorable to Biden.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Republican lawmakers have increasingly voiced outrage over what they call a culture of secrecy from the White House. Hawley and Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.) wrote a letter to Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last month demanding the agency release the 2020 Entry/Exit Overstay Report, which lists the number of foreign nationals in the country who overstayed their visas.
Despite plummeting approval ratings from voters, Democrats remain committed to the most liberal border policy in generations. In October, Senate Democrats proposed an appropriations bill that would slash Funding for Customs and Border Protection by half a billion dollars. ICE would have $40 million cut from its previous annual budget.
And no scandals
“Transparent” means you can see right through it like there’s nothing there.
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And, according to babs drysand, the most robust economy in 40 years.
Not to mention their professional timeing in handling covid, their 500,000,000 tests will be available in February, about the same time of the unofficial end of the pandemic.
How’s Biden gonna handle the State of the Union address?
Bidung’s there for only one reason......to enrich the Biden Crime Family.
With that in mind, everything he does makes perfect sense.
Bidung’s “Build Back Better” – is internationally known in offshore banking havens as “The Biden Crime Family Billionaire Enabling Bill.”
REALITY CHECK
Bidung made some 43 SECRET visits to Delaware BEFORE taxpayers even knew about this tax gouge.
Notice that oddly, no Bidens that we know of... came to the WH b/c they’d be exposed.....listed on the WH visitors list.
Bidung had to do all the dirty work in Delaware......as the trillions mounted.
The Biden Crime Family staked out their interest and got the money laundering machines in place BEFORE BIDUNG UNVEILED IT.
The Biden Crime Family has a huge financial interest in climate change.
Everytime Bidung says “climate change,” several offshore banks open their deposit windows,
type in Biden and seven zeros, then wait for the Intl Money Transfers.
Holding back illegals data surely means the family is getting kickbacks from traffickers.........
no question crackhead Hunter Biden is wallowing in the drug avalanche at the border.
“How’s Biden gonna handle the State of the Union address?”
...by faking a tummy ache from too much ice cream and not attending.
I can’t imagine that he will stand up in Congress and deliver one. His staff will piece together a videotaped speech. But it may take him weeks to have enough semi-lucid moments to read the whole thing in front of the cameras.
The USA naturalized (i.e., new voting citizens) 840,000 immigrants in FY 2021.
Excluding Amnesty years, I believe that is the largest number of new voters in more than a century.
“FROM THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION IN US HISTORY!...”
“And no scandals...”
And not even a SMIDGEN of corruption!
*SPIT*
We considered ordering some test kits so we could toss them in the trash. PLANdemic/SCAMdemic?SHAMdemic. CONTROLovirus. CONvid-one9. Is it a real disease? Probably. Is the response BS? Daily lies sure seem to make that highly likely. Fauci’s follies.
A report on deportations? For this administration...that would be a very short list. If it contains any data at all.
on paper. Covid, you know....................
Come on, man. A king (even a puppet king) doesn’t have to release a report if he doesn’t want to.
It will probably look something like this;
> His staff will piece together a videotaped speech. <
That’s my bet. The White House will say that Biden really wants to deliver the State of the Union speech in person. But he can’t because of Covid, domestic terrorism, and stuff.
Let me guess. The last time they didn’t report was during the Obunghole cartel.
The Democrat Party is the Party of Evil. It always has been, from the days when it was overtly pro-slavery; to its open advocacy of the ku klux klan, segregation, and Jim Crow laws, in the 20th century; and into the 21st century when evil, self-serving Democrats endeavour to sell the USA to the highest bidder and every man, woman, and child in America into slavery.
The Democrat Party has never changed one iota. There is no reason to believe that it ever will.
The Democrat Party is certainly the Party of Hate and Evil. It is now and always has been. It is the closest thing the USA has ever produced to the evil Nazi party which took over Germany and the evil communist party which took over Russia and China in the 20th century. Any honest person who supports it is a fool.
He’ll do it from his fake white house office. Fake set with a fake president.
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