ms. vaughan: five weeks. sen. sessions: i believe that is right. that is a lot of training to things anda few basically how to handle yourself. february, in in may, i was down in a remote county, it is one of the highest transit points in the nation for illegal immigrants. 16 sheriffs deputies, if they participated in this program they have to be out of the office to understand, the have to meet training requirements taken care ofis by that county, not by ice. they might pay the lodging cost, airfare, but those deputies are not doing their job. they are now out training, so now that county pays overtime to cover the loss. this is a backbreaking exercise. with tomst week coleman and this is one of the issues we have to fix and i think there is a solution there. we will work with them, do whatever it takes, but to hear $130 million is returned and reprogrammed because they did not spend it, when sheriffs are going broke on the border, set us the money. do not give it to the governor, give it to the sheriffs. sen. sessions: 2 million criminal aliens i

ms. vaughan: yes, and also -- sen. sessions: you took those out? ms. vaughan: yes and legal ports of entry also, they catch people sometimes coming in as imposters and so on. so that is down from about 200,000 in 2012, to about 72,000 in 2015. criminal deportations, which as you noted, are supposed to be the highest priority and have been the near exclusive enforcement focus of the obama administration, have also dropped by about half since 2012. last year ice managed to deport just over 63,000 criminal aliens from the interior. out of an estimated population of more than 2 million. arrests of gang members, talking about illegal aliens involved in gangs, like 18th street, the seranos, again something that is supposed to be a top priority. these arrests have dropped by more than half, from 4600 in 2012 to 1600 in 2014. what is the reason for this decline? it is not for lack of funds, as we have discussed. congress has been responsive to the public in support for enforcement and have provided a reasonable amount of funding, especially for programs to remo