Biden Administration Failed to Remove 99 Percent of Illegal Immigrants Released into U.S., GOP Report Shows

Since January 2021, the Biden administration has failed to remove more than 99 percent of the illegal immigrants who have been released into the U.S., according to a report led by House Republicans.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Immigration Subcommittee chairman Tom McClintock (R., Calif.) published new data that showed how the Biden administration and Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have been downplaying the border crisis despite the extraordinary numbers.

At least 2,148,738 illegal aliens were released into the country, from President Joe Biden’s inauguration to March 31 this year, according to their findings, and only 108,102 have been removed from the country by immigration authorities. Of those removals, DHS deported only 5,993 illegals through official immigration-court proceedings, accounting for less than 0.3 percent of the total number of aliens released.

Furthermore, of the more than 5.6 million illegal aliens encountered at the southern border during that 26-month period, at least 2,464,424 had no confirmed departure from the U.S. as of March.

“These data contradict Secretary Mayorkas’s statements that the southwest border is closed and that illegal aliens are ‘quickly’ removed,” the 61-page report reads. “Instead, with more than 99 percent of illegal aliens staying inside the United States after being released by the Biden administration, there is virtually no enforcement of our immigration laws.”

Notably, only 6 percent of illegal immigrants were found to have a legitimate fear of persecution in the past two years, debunking Mayorkas’s claim they are just asylum-seekers looking for a new home.

“The vast majority of those individuals have not sought to evade law enforcement but have actually surrendered themselves to law enforcement and made a claim for relief under our laws,” Mayorkas told CNN host Chris Wallace in February, the report notes.

It also mentions that, owing to the record number of illegals crossing into the U.S. and Biden’s lax policies, border officials often can’t fulfill their immigration duties.

“Because of the unprecedented border crisis, some Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been forced to abandon arrests and removals of aliens, including criminal aliens, to process the illegal aliens who have arrived at the southwest border,” the report adds. “Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s own policies and so-called enforcement ‘priorities’ have contributed to reduced arrests and lower removals of aliens.”

The committee findings come as the Biden administration announced last week that it was planning to resume direct deportations to Venezuela and allow for more construction of the border wall in an effort to curb the record influx of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.