CHICAGO – Last Saturday, US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois jumped aboard the #ENDICE train, blasting the US Immigration & Customs Enforcement, telling a sympathetic CNN reporter the agency's officers are "incompetent," despite ICE's statistics for 2017:
From ICE for 2017:
- Despite numerous stories and allegations in the media falsely accusing ICE of conducting indiscriminate raids and sweeps, the fact is that 92% of all aliens arrested by ICE this year had criminal convictions, pending criminal charges, were an immigration fugitive, or were an illegal re-entrant.
- ICE is also on the frontlines of the fight against illegal narcotics trafficking that is contributing to the country’s deadly opioid epidemic. Our special agents seized approximately 7,000 pounds of heroin and more than 2,300 pounds of fentanyl, a drug so deadly, just a few grams can be lethal.
And what does Senator Durbin say about their efforts?
"Look at ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), what a group of incompetents. At this point they're focused more on toddlers than terrorists," says Sen. Dick Durbin at rally in Chicago https://t.co/YF62lStm5i pic.twitter.com/xIw2ZBptux
— CNN (@CNN) June 30, 2018
