A Biden-Harris program intended to deport illegal immigrant families has only removed 10% of those registered.
Only 2,600 migrants of the 24,000 in the program have been deported, according to a report from The New York Post.
More than 3,600 migrants from the program are at large in the United States.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) told the outlet that the numbers are “further proof that the Biden-Harris administration’s policies have nothing to do with actually securing the border or enforcing the law, but instead masking its utter refusal to do either of those things.”
“Such a dismal rate of removals makes clear that President Biden, ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris, and now-impeached DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are committed to ignoring U.S. immigration law, while attempting to hide that fact from the American people,” he said. “Ultimately, these individuals have a simple responsibility — detain and remove those who have no lawful basis to remain.”
The program, announced in 2023, was meant to provide “consequences for unlawful entry to the US,” giving “heads of household for family units” an ankle monitor.
“Families who receive a final negative credible fear determination will generally be removed from the United States within 30 days from processing into expedited removal and referral to USCIS,” U.C. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) explained last year.
Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveals that there have been more than 699,000 encounters of individuals in a family unit (FMUA) in fiscal year 2024.
Border Patrol agents have encountered more than 510,000 FMUAs, and the Office of Field Operations has encountered more than 188,000 FMUAs.
