Biden's ICE Couldn't Locate Most High-Risk Visa Overstay Targets—Watchdog
Summary
A report from the Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog found that between 2021 and 2024, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not locate most high-risk visa overstays. ICE arrested only eight out of over 104,000 individuals flagged as potential threats during this time, partly because of enforcement limits set by the Biden administration.Key Facts
- ICE got more than 3 million reports of visa overstays from 2020 to 2024.
- About 3 percent (roughly 104,000) of those were considered potential national security or public safety risks.
- ICE only found and arrested eight people from this high-risk group.
- A memo from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2021 limited ICE to focusing on only the highest priority cases.
- ICE had trouble verifying addresses and locating many visa overstayers.
- ICE said it did not have enough resources to investigate all visa overstay leads.
- Examples of high-risk individuals included a man charged with sexual offenses who overstayed his tourist visa and others convicted of serious crimes who could not be found.
- The DHS Inspector General's report raised concerns about enforcement under the Biden administration’s policies.
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