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"What we want: To end the days where people believe they can come into the country, make a claim of asylum from oppression or deprivation or violence in Central America or elsewhere, and then be released into the country on their own recognizance only to vanish into the nation," Pence said on Sunday's show.



“Well, most of them do show up to their hearings," Tapper noted.



“Ninety percent of the people never show up for their hearing in the months ahead," Pence said. "The overwhelming majority, plus-90 percent, don’t show up."



Rizzo cited researchers at the Syracuse University-based Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse that wrote in a June 18 report that 81 percent of migrant families attended all their court hearings from September 2018 through May 2019.

Pence may have been referencing numbers provided by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), however.

A DHS official told the Post that almost 90 percent of migrants who were part of a fast-track initiative called the "rocket docket," which looks to complete cases in under one year, didn't show up for hearings.

“As of April 2019, out of approximately 7,700 total removal orders for rocket docket cases, over 6,700 were in absentia. That’s 87 percent," a Department of Homeland Security official said when contacted by the Post.