Biden Admin Withholds Report on Illegal Immigrant Population
The Biden administration has yet to publicly disclose critical information on the number of illegal immigrants in the United States, a violation of congressional guidance and a departure from federal transparency standards.
The Department of Homeland Security has given Congress its report on the number of foreign nationals who remain in the United States on expired visas, but the information has not been subsequently released to the public, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Stretching back to at least the Obama administration, DHS has made the annual report on suspected visa overstays available to the public shortly after giving it to Congress.
Requests for comment to various agencies within DHS on the report went unanswered. Congress has mandated that the report is released online to the public, out of concern that "the large number of annual in-country alien overstays threatens national security and the integrity of legal immigration."
The Biden administration's failure to post the report comes as it faces an all-time high surge of migrants on the southern border. DHS has repeatedly failed to answer lawmaker questions about the criminal histories of migrants allowed entry or where those migrants have been resettled.
The failure to post the report is consistent with the administration's dramatic changes to avoid stigmatizing the illegal immigrant population, such as banning the term alien from federal government literature, according to former immigration officials.
"For whatever reason, it appears political appointees are not disclosing a report produced by career subject matter experts," said former Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior adviser Jon Feere. "It's consistent with the Biden administration's general hostility to transparency."
"The Biden policies are a slap in the face to all State Department employees—the message is that all foreigners can ignore visa adjudicators and stay as long as they'd like," Feere said.
Under the Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000, the federal government is legally required to prepare an annual report on the number of foreign nationals who are suspected of overstaying their visas. That report must also be submitted to the House and Senate as part of a bipartisan effort to better track abuses in the country's immigration system.
Subsequent appropriations bills for the Department of Homeland Security require the agency to post these reports publicly. For five years, starting under the Obama administration, DHS complied with the provision. The report was posted on DHS's website each year under former president Donald Trump.
The report, officially called the Entry/Exit Overstay Report, provides an exact accounting of foreign travelers no longer authorized to live in the United States by using arrival, departure, and visa information through various agencies within DHS and the State Department. The identification of those individuals illegally living in the United States does not, importantly, necessarily result in deportation proceedings.
The Free Beacon reached out to every House and Senate office copied on the 2019 report, the last one made available to the public. None of the offices, including outspoken critics of Biden's immigration policy such as Sens. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), would offer comment. The office of Rep. Kay Granger (R., Texas) confirmed she received the 2020 report but also would not comment on its findings.
Democrats hope to use their budget reconciliation plan to expand the number of foreigners authorized to work in the United States. Critics of the immigration provisions in the bill say they could lead to the issuance of hundreds of thousands of visas, and offer permanent residency to over half a million visa holders already in the United States.
Watch: Afghan Refugee Attempts to Stab Police, Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’
San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers shot dead an Afghan national in a hotel after he charged them while wielding a knife, shouting “Allahu Akbar,” surveillance footage reveals.
Ajmal Amani, a 41-year-old Afghan national, was shot dead by officers in a hotel in San Francisco, California, on November 19 as surveillance footage shows him attempting to stab two officers by running towards them with a knife. In the process, Amani shouted, “Allahu Akbar.”
Amani had arrived in the United States in 2014 after working for five years as an interpreter for Navy SEALS in the Afghanistan War, the San Francisco Standard reports. Amani likely arrived on a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV), a quasi-refugee category created in 2009 specifically for Afghans who contracted and worked for U.S. Armed Forces in the Afghanistan War.
Amani had been living in the San Francisco hotel, paid for by taxpayers.
Ajmal Amani, an Afghan national, seen in surveillance footage wielding a knife before police officers arrive on the scene. (Photo via SFPD)
According to surveillance and audio footage of the incident, a hotel employee called police, stating that Amani had been wielding a knife in one of the hallways of the hotel. Amani can be seen in verbal altercations in the hallway with others.
When officers arrived on the scene, they tried to get Amani to walk towards them with his hands over his head. Amani can be heard responding to officers: “Don’t talk to me. Shut the fuck up” and “Leave me the fuck alone.”
When Amani did appear in the hallway, he rushed toward officers with the knife he had been holding. That’s when officers shot Amani, causing him to fall to the ground. Officers eventually handcuffed Amani as paramedics arrived and he was taken to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries.
Amani had prior run-ins with police.
Two years ago, Amani was arrested for trying to stab a San Francisco park ranger with a box cutter. According to Amani’s public defender, he suffered from mental illness. Amani was initially charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
The attempted murder charges, though, were thrown out by a judge and Amani was released into mental health treatment last year, where he was required to complete the treatment. Amani completed his treatment in August.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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The agency’s previous orders had successfully freed into the U.S. criminal illegal aliens accused and convicted of child sex crimes, armed robbery, drunk driving, burglary, cocaine trafficking, grand theft auto, heroin trafficking, credit card fraud, money laundering, and other crimes.
Biden’s DHS Chief: Sanctuary Country Orders Ensure ‘Majority’ of Illegal Aliens Not Deported
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the agency’s new so-called “sanctuary country” orders will ensure that the “majority” of illegal aliens living in the United States are not deported.
On Monday, Mayorkas announced that the administration has started implementing its latest sanctuary country orders that protect most criminal illegal aliens by barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting and deporting them.
“Today is an important step forward in ensuring that our workforce is empowered to exercise its prosecutorial discretion and focus its enforcement efforts on those who pose a threat to our national security, public safety, and border security,” Mayorkas said:
DHS will carry out our mission to safeguard our country justly and humanely. In making our enforcement decisions, we will focus our efforts on the greatest threats while also recognizing that the majority of undocumented noncitizens, who have been here for many years and who have contributed positively to our country’s well-being, are not priorities for removal. [Emphasis added]
In February, DHS officials issued initial orders that prevented ICE agents from arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens unless they had been recently convicted of an aggravated felony or had been identified as a known gang member or terrorist.
Those initial orders are being challenged in federal court.
“The fact an individual is a removable noncitizen, therefore, should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them,” the new orders state.
The orders ask ICE agents to “not rely on the fact of conviction or the result of a database search alone” that may match an identified criminal illegal alien but rather “obtain and review the entire criminal and administrative record and other investigative information to learn of the totality of the facts and circumstances of the conduct at issue.”
ICE agents are instructed not to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens unless they pose a “current threat to public safety.” The orders require ICE agents to factor in a number of reasons as to why a criminal illegal alien should not be arrested and deported.
Those reasons can include:
- advanced or tender age; lengthy presence in the United States;
- a mental condition that may have contributed to the criminal conduct, or a physical or mental condition requiring care or treatment;
- status as a victim of crime or victim, witness, or party in legal proceedings;
- the impact of removal on family in the United States, such as loss of provider or caregiver;
- whether the noncitizen may be eligible for humanitarian protection or other immigration relief;
- military or other public service of the noncitizen or their immediate family;
- time since an offense and evidence of rehabilitation;
- conviction was vacated or expunged
In addition, last month, Mayorkas issued a list of “protected areas” where ICE agents are barred from arresting illegal aliens. Those areas include schools, healthcare facilities, places of worship, playgrounds, childcare centers, school bus stops, crisis centers, homeless shelters, rehab facilities, food banks, disaster relief centers, funerals, weddings, protests, rallies, and parades.
Center for Immigration Studies analyst and former DHS official Jon Feere plotted all the locations in the Washington, D.C. area where ICE agents are banned from arresting illegal aliens — revealing few locations that are not “protected areas.”
Chart via Center for Immigration Studies
The agency’s previous orders had successfully freed into the U.S. criminal illegal aliens accused and convicted of child sex crimes, armed robbery, drunk driving, burglary, cocaine trafficking, grand theft auto, heroin trafficking, credit card fraud, money laundering, and other crimes
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“It is taking time and it is difficult because the entire system was dismantled by the prior administration,” Mayorkas said on CNN as he invented facts out of thin air. “There was a system in place that was torn down by the Trump administration.”
Meanwhile, immigration officials caught almost 100,000 border crossers in February, up 170 percent over February 2020. More than 118,000 illegal aliens have crossed the border undetected since October 2020, Breitbart News reported.
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Border Patrol K-9 Helps Find 100 Migrants Locked in Tractor-Trailer in Texas
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents recovered nearly 100 migrants from a locked tractor-trailer rig at an immigration checkpoint between the Mexican border and San Antonio. The agents made the discovery after a K-9 alerted to the possible presence of drug or human cargo in the trailer.
Laredo North Station Border Patrol agents assigned to the Interstate 35 immigration checkpoint on November 23 observed a tractor-trailer approaching for inspection in one of the main commercial lanes. During the initial interview and inspection, a K-9 alerted to an odor it is trained to detect coming from the trailer of the rig, according to a tweet from Laredo Sector Chief Patrol Agent Matthew Hudak.
The agents referred the driver to a secondary inspection station where agents conducted a physical search of the rig. When they unlocked the trailer’s rear door, the agents found nearly 100 migrants locked inside.
The discovery comes shortly after two additional human smuggling attempts utilizing tractor-trailers were interdicted by Laredo Sector agents, Breitbart Texas reported.
These discoveries were made when Laredo North and Freer Station agents found nearly 100 more migrants locked in two tractor-trailer rigs. Agents referred the two tractor-trailers to secondary inspection stations after initial immigration interviews at checkpoints north of Laredo.
In late October, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced that Chief Hudak will become the Deputy Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, the Washington Examiner reported. Hudak will work directly under Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortz.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Parler @BobPrice, and Facebook.
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