The border line between Mexico and the U.S in the community of Sasabe in Sonora state, Mexico, on Jan. 13, 2017. Phot by Alfredo Estrella / AFP - Getty Images
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) – As illegal migration continues to be one of the top issues on voters’ minds this year, the Department of Homeland Security has revealed their monitoring of approximately 600,000 illegal immigrants with criminal histories known to have entered the U.S. in recent years.
According to the Post Millennial, the information was obtained by the House National Security, Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Chairman and Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman during a hearing on Tuesday, which showed 617,000 migrants in the country illegally have a criminal conviction or pending criminal charges.
“The fact is that illegal aliens should not be in the country in the first place and able to commit these crimes,” Grothman said during the hearing and continued by saying, “The solutions aren’t hard. Secure the border, stop releasing illegal aliens into the country in droves, and when an illegal alien commits a crime in the community, turn them over to ICE, enforce the law, and remove them. It’s just that simple.”
In recent weeks, several high-profile crimes have been committed by migrants in the U.S. illegally, including the murder of Georgia college student Laken Riley, which made international headlines and prompted her family to be invited to spend time with former President Donald Trump and even have a bill known as the Laken Riley Act pass the U.S. House of Representatives. Similar crimes have also been recorded in states like Michigan, in which an illegal migrant named Brandon Ortiz-Vite killed 25-year-old Ruby Garcia when he attempted to carjack her vehicle and she was uncooperative.
Another incident was recently recorded in Butler County, Ohio, when 48-year-old illegal migrant Fermin Garcia-Gutierrez, who had been deported on seven separate occasions, was arrested and charged with the murder of an unidentified individual. Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones blasted the federal response to the crisis at the southern border, stating that a total of 999 illegal immigrants have been housed in the county jail in recent years at a cost of over $1.8 million to local taxpayers.
These incidents come only a matter of weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas due to charges that include “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust.” The U.S. Senate is expected to take up the charges on Wednesday, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he wants to deal with the articles of impeachment “as expeditiously as possible.”
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