Unless and until Congress appropriates sufficient funds for ICE to apprehend and remove every undocumented alien in the country we should support the agency's efforts to focus its limited resources on removing those undocumented aliens who pose the greatest threat to our Nation.
Thompson emphasizes the need for adequate funding to ICE for effective immigration enforcement.
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