More than 925,000 Illegals With Final Deportation Orders Remain in the U.S.

More than 925,000 illegal immigrants with final orders of removal remain in the United States, most living in communities and towns across the country in defiance of their deportation orders, according to a new report released Friday — the one-year anniversary of the murder of Kathryn Steinle.

Department of Homeland Security information provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee and obtained by Center for Immigration Studies director of policy Jessica Vaughan reveals that as of July 4, 2015 there were 925,193 illegal immigrants with final orders of deportation in the U.S., nearly 20 percent (or 179,040) of whom have at least one criminal conviction.

More than 913,820 (or nearly 99 percent) of the illegal immigrants who remain in the U.S., despite final orders of removal are not detained, instead living freely in U.S. Of those non-detained illegal immigrants, 172,135 have at least one criminal conviction to their name.

In other words, of the illegal immigrants who have been convicted of a crime and have been ordered removed, 96 percent are at large in neighborhoods across the nation.

As Vaughan highlights, about 60 percent of the illegal immigrants still in the U.S., in defiance of deportation orders, come from just four countries: Mexico (187,384), El Salvador (159,509), Honduras (120,118) and Guatemala (99,201).

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