More than 30,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records were released by federal officials last fiscal year — on top of the over 36,000 that were released the previous year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Wednesday.
The agency, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, said that it had released 30,558 criminal illegals in fiscal 2014. The figure was down from the 36,007 criminals the previous year.
The statistics were first reported by The Washington Times.
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The fiscal 2013 figures include more than 2,000 criminal illegals that were released in February 2013 under planned sequestration cuts. More than 600 were known criminals.