President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has kept detention space, meant for migrants considered a priority for deportation, unfilled as more than half a million known criminal migrants live throughout the United States.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data, divulged to Congress last week, reveals that the agency’s non-detained docket includes over 425,000 convicted criminal migrants and more than 222,000 migrants with pending criminal charges.
By the end of the year, more than eight million migrants will be on ICE’s non-detained docket. Those on the non-detained docket are known to ICE but live in American towns and cities while awaiting their deportation hearings.
For perspective, when former President Donald Trump left office in early 2021, only about 3.2 million migrants were on ICE’s non-detained…
