House Republicans have issued a request to have a transcribed interview with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official who oversees the deportations of illegal immigrants.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Chairman Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) issued the formal request (pdf) on June 5 to the Deputy Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations at ICE.
The letter was sent in relation to concerns that ICE has failed to enforce federal immigration law amidst a significant surge in illegal immigration.
According to the committee leadership, they have a responsibility to oversee the administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law and find it necessary to examine actions by ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) during what they describe as a “period of skyrocketing illegal immigration.”…