As record numbers of migrants crossed into the US this week, overwhelmed Customs and Border Patrol facilities were ordered to simply start releasing them, without giving them court dates to plead their cases or any ability to track where in the country they are.
Migrants rushed to make it onto US soil before the end of Title 42, with many being simply being waved into the country for processing and hundreds of illegal border crossers offered amnesty.
Border Patrol reported 28,000 people in custody Wednesday, when an order came down from Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz saying to begin releasing swaths of people.
A leaked email published by the Daily Caller instructed agents to facilitate releases from any border sector that reached 125% capacity — which was the case in five of the nine Border Patrol sectors in the southwest, according to ABC.
“We’re already breaking and we haven’t hit the starting line,” one DHS official told NBC.
The migrants, most of whom have entered the country illegally, were released into the US under “parole with conditions,” which leaves it up to them to arrange an appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement within 60 days, or apply for an asylum court date to be sent to them by mail. --->READ MORE HERE
When I checked into my hotel this week in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico, I was surprised to learn that many of my fellow guests had traveled more than 7,000 miles from their homes in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.
This is not your father’s illegal immigration.
Upon Joe Biden’s inauguration, people smugglers and their customers worldwide responded to what they called the new president’s “la Invitación” to cross the US border illegally.
Over the past two-plus years, the Biden-Harris administration has released more than 2 million illegal immigrants into the United States, with another 1.5 million “got-aways” facing no interior deportation, prompting ever more to come and try their luck.
All that happened while something known by the nickname “Title 42” was still in place. Title 42 public health orders were issued during COVID and allowed Border Patrol agents to expel border jumpers without hearings.
It was the only Trump-era border measure the current administration kept in place, though it’s been using it for an ever-smaller share of migrants.
But Title 42 ends this week, and I wanted to see for myself what was happening, so I drove down to the southernmost point of the Texas/Mexico border. --->READ MORE HERE
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