ICE Released 107,000 Illegal Alien Family Members in 3 Months

Foreign nationals are being arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by ICE aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants, and at-large criminal aliens in Atlanta, Georgia, on Feb. 9, 2017. ICE

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released 107,000 illegal alien family members into the interior United States in the three months since Dec. 21, 2018, according to Nathalie Asher, the assistant director of the agency’s enforcement and removal operations unit.

Asher said ICE released 1,000 family members in a single day, a number she called “staggering.”