Posted on 12/30/2022 11:52:51 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
Deportations of illegal immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in FY 2022 rose slightly compared to the prior fiscal year, although still significantly lower than during the Trump administration, as ICE diverted significant resources to assist overwhelmed Border Patrol agents at the southern border, according to the agency's annual report released Friday.
ICE’s report showed that the agency removed 72,177 illegal immigrants in FY 2022, slightly more than the 59,011 deported in FY 2021. That number in turn had marked a sharp drop from the 185,884 deported in FY 20 (the last full fiscal year of the Trump administration) and 267,258 in FY 2019.
The agency said that those deportations included removals to over 150 countries, with about half being conducted by charter flight. Among those deported were 2,667 known or suspected gang members 55 known or suspected terrorists, and 74 fugitives wanted for crimes including rape, homicide and kidnapping.
The majority of the deportations were illegal immigrants for whom Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was the arresting agency. Of those deportations for which ICE was the arresting agency, numbers were down to just 28,204 from 31,557 in FY21 and 62,739 in FY 20.
Meanwhile, arrests rose significantly in FY 2022, with the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) making 142,750 administrative arrests, compared to just 74,082 in FY21. In FY 20 there were 103,603 arrests and in FY19 there were 143,099 arrests.
However, the report says that the increase in arrests can be attributed primarily due to the increase in Border Patrol encounters at the southern border -- which hit 2.3 million encounters in FY2022 -- and limited ICE resources being diverted to assist its fellow DHS agency in processing those migrant encounters into the interior.
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Vote for Rats, get chaos.
Horsepuckey! The Obama / Biden Regime counts as deported anyone who failed to get into the country. While there are very few that they ARE NOT letting in, they fudge these numbers, just like the lies about most everything else.
The Democrats want as many people to come across the border as they can possibly get.
Ah ha ha ha ha, ROTF...
There won't be one favorable demographic related to this travesty.
Amen it’s endless
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