There's a lot of talk about deporting 11 million illegal aliens. Democrats claim that they just want to deport the criminals. But they aren't doing that either. Instead the numbers show that nearly 1 million aliens have yet to be deported, and around 20 percent of them have at least one criminal conviction.
As of a year ago, there were more than 925,000 aliens who had been ordered removed, but who had not departed (known as ICE's "Post Final Order Docket"). About 20 percent of the non-departed aliens have at least one criminal conviction. Nearly all of these individuals — and nearly all of the convicted criminals — are at large, not in ICE custody.
As shown in Table 2, the number of non-departed post final order aliens who are convicted criminals grew 20 percent from 2012 to 2015. Considering that federal data indicates a recidivism rate of somewhere between 30 and 70 percent, the federal government's failure to deport these aliens should be of some concern to law enforcement agencies and the public.
This is a security crisis that has gotten worse under Obama because of his role in encouraging open borders and trying to backdoor amnesty.