1.4 million illegal aliens with deportation orders are still roaming free in the United States under the immigration policies of lame-duck President Joe Biden.
It comes even as recent reports of illegal aliens murdering Americans have many communities on edge.
The number of deportees is less than half of the total number of estimated illegal immigrants in the country, which is 11.7 million, according to a new Fox News report.
Steven Camarota, the director of research for the Center of Immigration Studies, told Fox:
“It took decades of neglect and bad public policy, coupled with four years of unprecedented illegal immigration, to get here.
“You can’t reverse it in four years.”
Former Border Patrol Council head Brandon Judd said the number doesn’t come as a surprise.
“We’ve known this forever,” Judd said.
“I’ve been on record many times saying that once somebody gets here, they’re never going to leave this country.
“And the reason is, is because the vast majority of them won’t show up [for their court date].”
Judd said that most migrants who aren’t in detention get notified of their deportation via letter and are not arrested.
“We have addresses, we have places of work – we have information about them,” he said.
“How do you have the immigration system that has judges go through this whole procedure and then most of the people they say ‘No’ to are not made to go home?” Camarota continued.
The Biden administration isn’t working too hard to pursue them when they don’t show up to court either, he said.
The incoming administration of President Donald Trump has said mass deportations are looming.
Trump’s transition team recently revealed that the military may be deployed to carry out the huge deportation task.
Last week, the border state of Texas offered to give 1,400 acres of land to the Trump administration.
The land would be used to stage the Trump admin’s efforts to deport many of the illegals who have flooded the border under Biden.
Texas is offering land in Starr County, in the Rio Grande sector near the border.
The position makes it suitable for detaining migrants before they are sent back to where they came from.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered the land in a letter to the Trump administration.
Buckingham said the state was “fully prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the United States Border Patrol to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.”
The land was purchased to continue a border wall.
However, that effort was stopped by the Biden administration when he took office in 2021.
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