Currently, there are 23 countries that the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security label "uncooperative," which means there are serious delays in producing the travel documents the U.S. needs to send the immigrants back, The Washington Post's Carol Morello reports.
The Migration Policy Institute's Michelle Mittelstadt told ATTN: that Trump's estimated numbers of undocumented immigrants with criminal records may not add up. Mittelstadt said there were 1.9 million deportable criminal immigrants in the U.S in 2012, based on estimates from the Department of Homeland Security and more than half of those people were legal permanent residents or other legally present foreigners who were convicted of a crime. About 820,000 of the deportable immigrants in the U.S were unauthorized immigrants with a criminal conviction on their record, according to Mittelstadt.
"They are all removable as a result of having being convicted of a crime, that makes them removable, but they are not all unauthorized immigrants," she said.
Thomas Homan, the executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, gave written testimony in May to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary's subcommittee on immigration. "As a result of their lack of cooperation, ICE has experienced a significant hindrance in our ability to removal aliens from these countries," he wrote.
Here are the 23 countries the U.S. reportedly lists as "uncooperative" with deportations:
Afghanistan
Algeria
Burundi
Cape Verde
China
Cuba
Eritrea
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
India
Iran
Iraq
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Libya
Mali
Morocco
Mauritania
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Sudan
Zimbabwe
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