A Florida police officer was still in “critical but stable condition” on Thursday after being shot in the head five days ago by an illegal alien, even as reports emerged that the shooting suspect should have been sent safely out of the country years ago.

But he was still free to roam the streets.

According to the WFTX, Fort Myers police Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller was nearly killed by a man he was trying to arrest at a gas station Saturday night for allegedly assaulting a group of males and stealing a cell phone from a car.

The man who shot the officer was Wisner Desmaret, a 29-year-old Haitian national who has been in custody at least twice before, according to WBBH, NBC2.

“The Glades County Sheriff’s Office said that Desmaret was placed on an ’ICE Hold’ in December 2008. He was then released to ICE officials at the Krome facility in Miami.

“Two years later, in a 2010 booking report, Desmaret was placed on another ‘ICE Hold, this time in Lee County.” – READ MORE

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has increased both its work site investigations and its immigration-related arrests in 2018 compared to the previous year.

According to newly released federal data, the agency more than tripled its work site investigations and made over five times more immigration arrests than it did in 2017.

The start of fiscal year 2018, October 1, 2017, saw ICE begin investigations at 6,093 workplaces, over three times the 1,716 during fiscal year 2017, which also included several months under former President Obama.

The 984 administrative arrests – when someone is arrested solely for the crime of being in the United States illegally – made as of July 20, 2018 is almost six times the 172 made the previous year.

Further, ICE has arrested 675 immigrants for criminal offenses so far in 2018, compared to 2017’s 139. – READ MORE