More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide — either in the United States or abroad — are living freely in the U.S., outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, according to data ICE provided to Congress earlier this week.
The 13,099 immigrants convicted of homicide living in the U.S. may have never had contact with ICE, the two law enforcement officials said.
The two law enforcement officials said ICE prioritizes migrants who have been convicted of serious crimes, like homicide, for arrest.
There are currently more than 7.5 million immigrants on ICE’s “non-detained” docket, meaning they have pending immigration cases but are not currently in detention.
Agents explained that locating convicted criminals living at large takes an enormous amount of manpower, from locating them to the arrest.
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