Migrant murders put American communities on edge as over 1.4 million avoid deportation with shady tactics

1.4 million immigrants who have court orders to leave the country still reside in the U.S.. An immigration researcher says it took "decades of bad policy" to get to this point.

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Of that 1.4 million, only about 13,000 are behind bars. As of July 2023, an estimated 11.7 million illegal immigrants resided in the U.S., according to the Center of Migration Studies of New York.

The issue has concerned residents throughout the U.S., as Americans such as Laken Riley, Lizbeth Medina, Jocelyn Nungaray and Rachel Morin have been killed over the past two years, all allegedly at the hands of illegal immigrants.