In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of aliens deported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). Many individuals are detained, often illegally, during the pendency of their cases. Immigrants who are removed are banned from returning to the U.S. for at least ten years. Some are banned for life.

As budgets are slashed for USCIS, which provide services to immigrants, Congress has provided nearly a billion dollars for the detention and deportation of immigrants. The Feds now arrest and detain more people than any other country on earth. It's as if Congress has declared war on immigrants.