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The Biden administration has not yet released a key report on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrests and deportations in Fiscal Year 2021, which was expected at the end of the year – leading critics to believe that the administration could be stalling on the report that they say will contain politically damaging information for the administration.
The annual report contains data on ICE’s enforcement operations and investigations throughout the fiscal year. The Washington Free Beacon reported that the report has been released at the end of the calendar year at least since 2011.
ICE ARRESTS DROPPED SHARPLY IN FY 2021 AS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ENFORCEMENT
“This is unprecedented,” Jon Feere, a former ICE official now with the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News. “It’s something ICE does every year proudly because agents and officers want to show the results of their hard work over the last year, and for the Biden administration political appointees to not want to produce this is really a slap in the face to the hard-working career officials, and more importantly it’s clearly a political effort aimed at hiding the impact of the Biden administration’s policies.”
ICE told Fox News, however, that there was no delay, that it is released around the end of the year or the beginning of the next year, that the report is in final review and the release date is still to be determined. A spokesperson said the agency expects it to be out later this month.
The FY2020 report showed that ICE’s arrests dropped from the prior fiscal year – attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, published during the Trump administration, found that there were 103,603 arrests and 185,884 removals. It also stated that 92% of removals were immigrants with either criminal convictions or pending charges. The report also broke down the number of convictions and charges by crime that were among the immigrants being…
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