Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem estimated Wednesday that the Biden-Harris administration allowed hundreds of thousands of criminal migrants into the U.S.
As Noem said on Fox News, these numbers include thousands connected to gangs, some of whom were already detained by the Trump administration.
During the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S. southern border reached record high illegal migrant encounters, with Customs and Border Protection data estimating around 8.5 million encounters during the four fiscal years at the U.S.-Mexico border, not including those potentially unrecorded. While the number of criminals let into the country remains unclear, Noem, on “Hannity,” estimated what she said was the number of criminal illegal migrants in the U.S.
The Trump administration has pushed for mass deportation.
“We have hundreds of thousands of criminals…
