- The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 10, 2024

President Joe Biden has many failures, but none so detrimental to the American people than his failure to uphold border security.

Crimes by illegals are not only senseless. They’re underreported.

“The costs are huge,” says John Lott, president of The Crime Prevention Research Center.

He went on: “[ICE] acknowledged [in a recent letter] that of the 7.4 million so-called non detained individuals released into the country, 9 percent of them — or 662,000 — had criminal records. About two-thirds of those had actually been convicted of crimes in their home countries.”

And now they’re wandering in America.

Moreover, “the 9 percent number is a real underestimate of the problem,” Lott says.

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