Only half of those deported from Border Under Biden are Arrests

The number of people arrested by the Border Patrol for illegally crossing the border nearly doubled in 2022 — but only half of them were deported, federal officials revealed Friday.

Only 72,177 out of the 142.750 persons arrested over the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, were deported. That’s up slightly from just over 59,000 deported during the 2021 fiscal year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in the agency’s year-end report.

Both numbers are a fraction of the 185,884 illegal immigrants deported in fiscal year 2020 during the last year of former President Donald Trump’s watch — and way below the 267,258 who were sent back across the border in the 2019 fiscal year, the report said.

The report was published after ICE sent 600 agents to the US border with Mexico. 300 more were dispatched overseas in an effort to stop smuggling.

However, the relocation of federal immigration agents to the frontier has reduced the agency’s ability to focus more resources on international busts and non-border deportations.

“ICE dedicated significant resources to helping secure the southwest border and ensuring the processing of migrants,” According to reports, Tae Johnson, ICE Acting Director, told reporters Friday. Fox News.

“We detailed thousands of law enforcement officers to the southwest border to investigate human smuggling and human trafficking and assisted with processing of migrants into ICE’s Alternatives to Detention program to help ensure migrants being released by [Customs and Border Protection] were meeting their reporting and immigration obligations,” Johnson agreed.

The 2022 administrative arrests were nearly double the 2021 figure of 74,082 and the 103,603 busts in 2020 — but behind the 143,099 in 2019.

The report stated that deportees were taken to more than 150 countries. More than 44,000 people were convicted or charged with crimes. “2,667 known or suspected gang members, 55 known or suspected terrorists, and seven human rights violators.”

Other 74 deportees were being pursued by foreign governments for charges such as murder, rape, terroristic acts, and kidnapping.

Today, thousands of immigrants have gathered at the border between Mexico and the United States. anticipation of the end of Title 42 — a Trump-era policy that turned millions of asylum seekers away.

A judge in November ordered that the asylum limit be lifted Dec. 21. However, the US Supreme Court extended the deadline Title 42 through at least February It will be hearing a legal challenge by 19 Republican-led countries.