Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and 22 of his congressional colleagues sent a letter to the Biden-Harris administration in March expressing concern about the “criminal illegal aliens” the administration is releasing into the country. They also express concern about the sanctuary cities that are “providing safe harbor to violent criminals who have entered our country illegally.”

They aren’t likely to get much help with sanctuary jurisdictions from Vice President Kamala Harris. She comes from California, the most populous of the sanctuary states.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Patrick J. Lechleitner responded in a letter dated Sept. 25 that, as of July 21 of this year, there were 425,431 immigrants with criminal convictions on ICE’s non-detained docket. Their offenses include 13,099 homicides; 15,811 sexual assaults; 2,521 kidnappings; 13,423 weapon offenses; 10,031 robberies; 56,533 dangerous drug offenses; 14,301 burglaries; and 62,231 non-sexual assaults.

Being on ICE’s non-detained list just means that a migrant isn’t being detained by ICE. It’s likely that many of them are in prison, but there is no way of knowing how many. The Federal Bureau of Prisons maintains statistics on the citizenship of its inmates, but only about 13 percent of all prison inmates in the United States were in federal prisons in 2022. State and local jurisdictions aren’t all required to keep such records;........

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