Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said migrants who are crossing illegally into the U.S. are not being thoroughly screened for illnesses or criminal backgrounds.
“They often screen them before they go to detention, but they’re not being detained,” Krikorian explained on Thursday’s episode of The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy. “As far as criminal behavior, they do run their names through some databases before they let them go, but that only works if we have records of them having committed crimes in the United States. The problem always with vetting is garbage in, garbage out. Do you think that the Somalia DMV or the medical records office or whatever in Venezuela is going to tell us anything about people? Of course not. So, yes, there is some kind of pro forma screening but it doesn’t really screen very much.”
Krikorian noted that approximately 3.5 million migrants have been knowingly taken into custody and released into the U.S. since President Joe Biden took the oath of office on top of approximately 2 million migrants who have evaded law enforcement and disappeared into the country unchecked.
“Some people often will talk about higher numbers because some of the numbers are people who were taken into custody and then bounced back, but the number of illegal immigrants who got in, this administration has taken into custody and then released, is close to three and a half million illegal immigrants,” Krikorian explained. “So these are people they had in their hands…So about three and a half million that they knowingly let in – not just that got by them. You add on top of that probably another two million who got by the Border Patrol because the Border Patrol was overwhelmed, having to go to Walmart to buy diapers for the illegal immigrants who turn themselves in, so you put it together something like probably close to six million illegal immigrants who actually have gotten in and settled here under Biden.”
In regards to crimes being committed by illegal aliens in the U.S., Krikorian argued that “every single crime committed by an illegal alien is one that should not have happened in the United States.”
“It’s not so much that Illegal immigrants are more criminal. I mean, other than the immigration crimes they’re committing. It’s that every single crime committed by an illegal alien is one that should not have happened in the United States,” Krikorian said. “So even if there’s one illegal immigrant in the entire country who commits a crime, well that person should not have been here and the government’s refusal to enforce the law is partly responsible for that crime having happened.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Illegal Immigrants” by John Modlin.
