Crim­i­nal Pros­e­cu­tions Of Ille­gal Immi­grants Stopped When Coro­n­avirus Hit. They Nev­er Resumed

Criminal Prosecutions Of Illegal Immigrants Stopped When Coronavirus Hit. They Never Resumed

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has large­ly giv­en up on crim­i­nal­ly pros­e­cut­ing ille­gal immi­grants for cross­ing the bor­der, with the num­ber of pros­e­cu­tions of seri­ous immi­gra­tion offens­es low­er dur­ing every year of the Biden admin­is­tra­tion than any year of the Trump or Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tions, a Dai­ly Wire analy­sis of new­ly-released data shows.
The pros­e­cu­tions have screeched to a vir­tu­al halt under Biden. In 2018, the Depart­ment of Jus­tice charged 84,000 peo­ple with ille­gal entry, a mis­de­meanor. The total num­ber charged with this mis­de­meanor dur­ing the entire three-year peri­od from 2021 to 202 …