DHS can't keep up with growing deportation backlog

U.S. Can't Account for 600,000 Fugitives:
"... 'despite the efforts of the teams, the backlog of fugitive alien cases has increased each fiscal year since the program was established in February 2002,' the inspector general said."

This from a report on the fugitive operations teams by the Department of Homeland Secutity's inspector general (IG). As of last August, the number of immigration fugitives - those who were once caught, ordered deported, released from custody and then failed to report for removal from the US - stood at 623,292.

The report also notes that the records did not permit the IG to determine how many of those apprehended were picked up by the efforts of the DHS fugitive teams vs. those arrested for other reasons by state and local or other federal law enforcement officers.

As a former constable, I would love to see the feds give constables a crack at reducing that backlog. I have a strong suspicion my former colleagues could do the job more effectively and more efficiently than DHS. I understand that the feds have reservations about allowing just any state or local agency personnel to work cases designed to initially apprehend suspected illegals, but here we have a database of known fugitives, just the sort of quarry constables seek and find for Pennsylvania's courts every day.