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The Biden-Harris White House is remaining silent after new data was released showing the number of dangerous criminal illegal aliens have been allowed to freely roam the streets across America.
New data released to lawmakers shows the number of illegal aliens with convictions for sex offenses and homicide who are not in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.
The agency provided data to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) about illegals with criminal charges or convictions.
The data, as of July 2024, is broken down by those in detention and those who are not in detention, known as the non-detained docket.
The non-detained docket includes noncitizens who have final orders of removal or are going through removal proceedings but are not in ICE custody.
There are more than 7.4 million people on that docket, up from around 3.7 million when President Donald Trump left office.
The data shows that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges.
The data does not reveal how many of those criminals are recent arrivals.
For comparison, in August 2016, toward the end of the Obama administration, ICE said there were about 2.2 million noncitizens on the non-detained docket.
This included 368,574 convicted criminals.
In the latest data, the criminals include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide.
An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions, and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions.
There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges and 4,250 with assault charges.
The White House has so far refused to comment on the data and whether it had been aware of the numbers.
Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris is currently at the southern border in Arizona but she has not commented on the data.
The news sparked outrage from Republicans.
GOP lawmakers tied the numbers to the policies of the Biden-Harris administration and those “sanctuary” jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with ICE.
Gonzales called the data “beyond disturbing.”
“It should be a wake-up call for the Biden-Harris administration and cities across the country that hide behind sanctuary policies,” he noted in a statement.
“It’s time for Washington to move past rhetoric and toward results.
“Americans deserve to feel safe in their communities. As an appropriator, I will do everything in my power to ensure ICE has the resources necessary to deport noncitizens with a criminal record.
“This must be a priority,” Gonzales said.
“The Biden-Harris administration also plays a part in cleaning up the mess their failed policies have created.
“They have the ear of sanctuary city mayors. It’s time to encourage them to reverse course and put the safety of American citizens first.”
Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green said the release of illegal aliens into the U.S. “defies all common sense.”
“This is madness,” he said.
“It is something no civilized, well-functioning society should tolerate.”
In the letter to Gonzales, ICE took aim at so-called “sanctuary” cities that refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement in deporting illegal alien criminals.
“ICE recognizes that some jurisdictions are concerned that cooperating with federal immigration officials will erode trust with immigrant communities and make it harder for local law enforcement to serve those populations,” the letter states.
“However, ‘sanctuary’ policies can end up shielding dangerous criminals, who often victimize those same communities.”
It also stressed DHS’s efforts to remove illegal immigrants.
“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.”
The Biden administration has prioritized the removal of public safety and national security threats in narrowed priorities it released in 2021, but critics have linked those priorities with a drop in ICE removals.
Republicans have blamed the border crisis on the policies of the administration, including rolling back Trump policies that limited “catch and release.”
The administration has said it needs more funding and reforms from Congress, including via a bipartisan Senate bill introduced this year.
That bill would increase the number of ICE detention beds, but critics of the administration have pointed to numbers showing not all beds are being filled currently.
The White House refuses to comment about the increase in the non-detained docket this summer,
Instead, a White House spokesperson pointed to that bill.
“Congressional Republicans had an opportunity to support the fairest and toughest set of reforms in decades, and they chose to put partisan political interests ahead of fixing our immigration system and securing our borders,” the spokesperson said.
“Congressional Republicans have proven that they do not care about securing our border because, frankly, if they did, they would have supported the bipartisan agreement.”
The data’s release comes as Harris visits the southern border in Arizona.
Her campaign seeks to present Harris as tougher on the border than President Trump, who she blames for the border bill not passing.
“Donald Trump tanked a bill to improve border security — just so he can win this election,” she said Friday.
“As I have shown throughout my career, I won’t back down from my plan to make our border more secure.”
It wasn’t clear which elements of her career Harris was referencing.
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