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Trump’s Border Patrol chief reveals staggeringly low number of migrants released into US under his watch (2)
NY Post ^ | 2/28/25 | Jennie Taer

Posted on 03/01/2025 2:48:53 AM PST by Libloather

The days of catch and release at the border are over.

Border Patrol agents manning the southern border have released just two migrants into the US since President Trump’s Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks took the reins, the new head honcho revealed to The Post.

“The days of an open border are done,” Banks, a longtime former border agent himself and Texas’s former border czar, declared Friday.

He assumed the role, serving as the federal agency’s 27th head, on Jan. 22.

“The United States Border Patrol is just getting started. We will not accept anything other than complete operational control over our border,” the chief added.

The two migrants released into the country were witnesses in criminal cases, Banks said, assuring that they “were fully vetted” and considered “a benefit to the government.”

The chief, however, could not divulge where the migrants came from or what the criminal cases were.

The staggeringly small figure is in stark contrast to the thousands of migrants released into the US per day under the Biden administration — which Banks credits to the abolishment of the problematic “catch and release” policy, rolling back the controversial CBP One app, and the increased assistance from other federal agencies, including the Pentagon.

“Catch and release” refers to the practice of setting migrants free in the US while they await their immigration hearings.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; migrantsreleased; patrol; released
Horizontal was the border czarina. She said the illegal aliens were here because of a "lack of climate resilience" as one of the "root causes" of migration from Central America to the U.S. She's running for governor of California.
1 posted on 03/01/2025 2:48:54 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
“The United States Border Patrol is just getting started. We will not accept anything other than complete operational control over our border,” the chief added.

The country's becoming sane again - what a relief after all the Biden insanity.

2 posted on 03/01/2025 3:03:15 AM PST by GOPJ (Delta just Bud Lighted themselves - freeper dfwgator)
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To: Libloather
Wow....all those grifters/lawyers have no clients to coddle, and use lawfare to delay their deportation now?

I look forward to the day when the ACLU/other lawyers are lined up in the un-employment offices.....

3 posted on 03/01/2025 3:08:09 AM PST by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: Libloather

I would like to see a staggeringly large number deported. That’s the only metric that really matters.


4 posted on 03/01/2025 3:14:50 AM PST by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: GOPJ

BTTT


5 posted on 03/01/2025 3:23:20 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Libloather

I don’t even know what that sentence means!! :)

Maybe it’s better that way :)


6 posted on 03/01/2025 3:23:36 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Libloather

Yawn. When they can show images of HUUUUUGE numbers of people walking back the other way, going back to Mexico, then there is a story. Right now, this is just like turning off the water so new water does not increase the flooding in the basement. Still need to drain the water out of the basement before you can assess and repair the damage.


7 posted on 03/01/2025 4:00:53 AM PST by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: Libloather

i would like to know why they let those 2 in


8 posted on 03/01/2025 4:23:06 AM PST by joshua c
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Two too many!


9 posted on 03/01/2025 4:40:41 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Libloather

lol I understand what you said 😂


10 posted on 03/01/2025 4:49:33 AM PST by blitz128
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To: joshua c

i would like to know why they let those 2 in

umm try reading the article....


11 posted on 03/01/2025 5:08:57 AM PST by rolling_stone
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To: Libloather

Stop all assistance to all immigrants. Make them go to the Bolshie Blue states for handouts and freebies. They can take their avocados and Corona panther pee with them. We don’t need them.


12 posted on 03/01/2025 5:11:36 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Schmucky Schumer says that Government "hard workers" are working anonymously.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

They are witnesses in criminal cases.


13 posted on 03/01/2025 5:13:19 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Libloather
Guess we didn't need a bi partisan law that institutionalizes 118 billion dollars a year and the legalization of 5000 illegal aliens per day crossing the border to shut down the border.

Only the US Congress could pass a law mandating allowing 5000 illegals a day (1.8 million a year) to enter the US as a way to “shut down” the border.

As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, ‘the border never closes.’

Trump shut the border down in two weeks and now we have 200 people per day crossing the border.

In two weeks !

14 posted on 03/01/2025 5:14:58 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: ComputerGuy

Until you shut the flow off, the number of deportations is not that relevant. I agree the next phase is mass deportations. The stage has been set.


15 posted on 03/01/2025 5:45:27 AM PST by kabar
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To: ComputerGuy

It’s just not quite that easy. It’s not like they’re raising their hand and saying “pick me...pick me”.


16 posted on 03/01/2025 5:59:48 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather
In this context "staggering" == the old "normal".

The border is not closed. It is acting as a filter.

17 posted on 03/01/2025 6:53:33 AM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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To: Libloather
Border Patrol agents manning the southern border have released just two migrants into the US since President Trump’s Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks took the reins.

That two too many and why were they released into the US?

18 posted on 03/01/2025 7:14:26 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Libloather

19 posted on 03/01/2025 8:11:38 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Bernard
"When they can show images of HUUUUUGE numbers of people walking back the other way, going back to Mexico, then there is a story."

That is happening. I just read yesterday a couple of large caravans in Mexico heading to our border have changed direction and now heading south and trying to get asylum from Mexico. One migrant interviewed said, "There is no hope any longer. None".

20 posted on 03/01/2025 10:24:17 AM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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