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President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released about 9,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States over the last eight days, federal data confirms. Catch and release totals obtained by Breitbart News confirm that between May 6 through May 13, roughly 9,000 border crossers and illegal aliens were released into a variety of American communities by DHS. This indicates that at least 1,100 border crossers and illegal aliens have been released into the country every day in the past week. The Catch and release process often entails federal immigration officials busing border crossers...

Homeland Security netted more than 680 immigrants in a new series of raids, Secretary John F. Kelly said Monday, saying they were standard enforcement actions that generally nabbed serious criminals. Three quarters of those arrested in the raids — the first major announced action under President Trump — had criminal convictions, Mr. Kelly said. He was responding to claims of immigrant-rights advocates, who said the administration was spreading fear by targeting rank-and-file illegal immigrants who have generally stayed out of serious trouble with the law, save for living and working here illegally.