Of course people don't want criminal aliens here who are a danger.

More than 75,000 people in this category of "criminal aliens" have been detained for months or years since the law took effect.

As directed, a lower level employee told the lie: only criminal aliens.

"A good portion of these detainees are what we call criminal aliens," he said.

In 1986 the agency was deporting 1,000 criminal aliens a year.

In the last 10 years, 816,000 criminal aliens have been removed from the United States.

But much of that empathy vanishes when it comes to criminal aliens.

Eight years ago, Congress formally directed the agency to make criminal aliens a primary target.

But a majority of deportable criminal aliens still do not have to worry.

It was created to prevent criminal aliens from being released into the general public.