In a truly surprising turn of events, the current Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Patrick Lechleitner, revealed on Friday that over 13,000 noncitizens with murder convictions are now residing in the United States, having entered the country while the Biden-Harris administration has done absolutely nothing to seal off the border and enforce the law regarding illegal immigration. Unbelievable.
This is why the crime rates in major cities all over the United States are spiking. Radical leftists are trying to gaslight Americans into thinking this isn’t the case, but the numbers speak for themselves. Biden-Harris are the biggest threat to our national security as long as they are sitting on their hands and watching as millions of illegal migrants mosey on over the southern border. Former President Donald Trump needs to be elected president in November. He’s the only one who has the plans to clean up this mess.
Where did this information come from? The data was featured in a letter that was sent by Lechleitner to Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican.
Are you ready for some numbers and related information that is truly going to blow your mind?
According to the letter, as of July 2024, there are 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket. Among them, a jaw-dropping 13,099 have been convicted of homicide. Even more concerning, these individuals are not in federal custody; they are part of ICE’s “non-detained docket,” meaning they are living freely within U.S. borders while awaiting immigration proceedings, which could take years to resolve. Congressman Tony Gonzales, who has been vocal about the ongoing crisis at the southern border, responded with outrage. “Americans deserve to be SAFE in our own communities,” Gonzales stated on X.
“We are removing and returning record numbers of migrants who are unable to establish a legal basis to remain in the United States, and prioritizing for removal those who present national security and public safety risks, and recent border crossers,” Lechleitner said in the letter. “From mid-May 2023 through the end of July 2024, DHS removed or returned more than 893,600 individuals, including more than 138,300 individuals in family units. The majority of all individuals encountered at the Southwest Border over the past three years have been removed, returned, or expelled.”
As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket—13,099 criminally convicted MURDERS!
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— Rep. Tony Gonzales (@RepTonyGonzales) September 27, 2024
The latest adds fuel to the already heated debate over immigration policies under the current administration. Republican lawmakers have long criticized Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their handling of the southern border, accusing them of neglecting national security in favor of politically motivated leniency. The numbers are indeed staggering: of the 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and an additional 226,847 face pending criminal charges. The numbers also go beyond murder convictions. The Acting ICE Director’s letter further revealed that more than 15,800 noncitizens convicted of sexual assault are also on the non-detained docket. Additionally, there are nearly 1,900 individuals with pending homicide charges and over 4,250 with pending sexual assault charges currently roaming free in the U.S.
One thing that is making the problem even worse is that the ICE detention centers have a fairly limited capacity to hold violators of immigration law. Currently, these facilities can hold a total of 41,500 people, which is a little better than last fiscal year, but still woefully insufficient to match the number of individuals who are flooding over the border every month. Add to that the many state and local law enforcement agencies that are now refusing to help ICE in detainer requests and you have lots of folks who shouldn’t be out on the streets roaming free and getting into trouble.
Bill Melugin of Fox News reported from Douglas, Arizona, where Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit. “We just got these numbers moments ago, but it’s a jaw-dropper, to say the least,” Melugin explained. “According to a letter that the acting director of ICE just sent to Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez, on ICE’s non-detained docket, they’re currently tracking 425,000 non-citizens who have been convicted of a crime. Of that number, over 13,000 non-citizens have convictions for homicide and are on the non-detained docket, meaning they’re roaming the country right now.
“On top of that, there are another 15,811 non-citizens convicted of sexual assault who are roaming the country right now on ICE’s non-detained docket,” Melugin went on to add. “It doesn’t stop there. Those are convictions. The ICE director also says there are currently just under 1,900 non-citizens on the non-detained docket who have pending homicide charges who are roaming the country and another 4,250 non-citizens who have pending sexual assault charges who are roaming the country on the non-detained docket.”
The report has been used by members of the GOP to help rally support and demand that immediate reforms to the immigration system be made as soon as possible. However, Democrats, especially those who are living and working in so-called “sanctuary cities,” are whining and complaining that if there is a close relationship between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, it could do serious damage to immigrant communities.
This is simple.
Build the wall, enforce the law.
That’s it.
It’s not complicated.