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John Roth, Inspector General, Homeland Security

The politics that surround illegal immigration are thorny, but so are the logistics. The Homeland Security Department\'s inspector general has chastised the dep...

Federal News Network Staff

April 28, 2015 9:01 am

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The politics that surround illegal immigration are thorny, but so are the logistics. The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general has chastised the department for sending detainees home on nearly empty flights and failing to record critical information about those detainees, like whether or not they belong to gangs. IG John Roth says the department could have saved more than $40 million through better planning. He joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to offer a solution.