Feds: 97% of illegal immigrants ordered out in February are in hiding

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Feds: 97% of illegal immigrants ordered out in February are in hiding
by Paul Bedard
June 21, 2019

Fed up with thousands of illegal immigrants thumbing their noses at court orders to leave the country, the Trump administration is ramping up warnings that their time is up.
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ICE officials are frustrated and angered that migrants given final orders to leave the United States have instead gone into hiding. In February, for example, ICE sent letters in Spanish asking families set for deportation to check in with the agency. They were given 30 days to get their affairs in order and buy a ticket home.

Throughout the process, they were given access to attorneys, legal services, and an interpreter.

But of the 2,105 sent letters, just 65 showed up. Some 97% did not.

The timing of the operation’s start is unclear, though Trump tweeted this week, “Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States. They will be removed as fast as they come in. Mexico, using their strong immigration laws, is doing a very good job of stopping people.”

The goal is twofold: Show potential illegal immigrants that the U.S. is going to enforce its immigration laws and end the so-called “pull factor” from illegals entering the country showing friends and relatives back home that it is easy to get in.

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Immigration restrictionists have often repeated a bold and erroneous claim: that there is a serious problem of asylum seekers who come to the U.S. border and disappear once released from detention. But both fact-checkers and independent studies show this is not true. In reality, the vast majority of asylum seekers diligently attend all of their immigration court hearings. LINK

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