But that does not mean all of them will be deported, according to a new report.
By Catholics for Catholics
Nearly two million illegal immigrants have deportation orders, but that does not mean that all of them -including the ones with criminal records- will be actually deported from the country, according to The New York Post.
There are 1.5 million migrants with deportation orders by a judge to leave the United States, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The data shows 423,000 of them are convicted criminals.
Still, The Post reported that according to sources, it is unlikely that the Trump administration will remove all of them.
“That’s far more time-consuming to track down, surveil and arrest aliens. We have arrested a lot of aliens with removal orders just on random encounters,” a source said to the Post. “Just because someone has a removal order doesn’t mean we can remove them. At least not immediately. They may have been granted a stay of removal for a time period, they may be requesting asylum, they might be an informant, there are a number of factors that can come into play.”
According to the post, immigration authorities are supervising more than 7.5 million migrants who aren’t held in federal detention centers. In 2024, ICE had 7.4 million migrants they were checking on, including 425,000 convicted criminals.
The Post reported that ICE is employing tracking devices to permit them to better keep tabs on migrants. Its Alternative to Detention program is supervising 182,000 people using ankle and wrist monitors along with a phone app called SmartLink.
In addition, every ICE agent was forced to monitor an average of 7,000 cases. To aid in the process, ICE has set a goal of employing 10,000 new agents with the additional funding from the megabill recently signed into law by President Donald Trump.
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