Seven of every 10 families released by the Obama administration this year after entering the country illegally didn’t show up for follow-up appointments with authorities, the Associated Press reported today.
AP said it obtained an audio recording of a confidential meeting held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at which one ICE official said thousands of families caught crossing the border this year–70 percent of the total–subsequently failed to meet as instructed with federal immigration agents.
In the meeting with immigration reform advocates participating in a federal working group on detention and enforcement policies, the ICE official also said final deportation had been ordered for at least 860 persons traveling as families and caught at the border since May; of those, only 14 had reported for deportation.
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