Catch-and-release of illegals restarted in Texas, border patrol agents say

Washington Times ^ | 11/16/17 | Stephen Dinan

[markomalley]

The Trump administration reinstated a de facto catch-and-release policy for illegal immigrants nabbed crossing the border in Texas, with Border Patrol agents being told Wednesday not to even bother turning them over for speedy deportation because there was no bed space, a top agent said.

The problem, said Brandon Judd, an agent and president of the National Border Patrol Council, is that illegal immigration has surged once again after dipping during the early months of President Trump’s tenure.

That has left the deportation agency, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, struggling to find beds to hold the illegal immigrants. As a result, Border Patrol agents who bring apprehended people to ICE are turned away.

“We’re going to have to release them out our front door,” Mr. Judd said. “Even if we try to turn them over to them, they’re just not going to take them.”

He said ICE’s San Antonio office, which handles most of the traffic from the Texas border, said it would have to refuse to take any family units the Border Patrol tries to turn over and will soon reject even non-family migrants.

Later Wednesday, Mr. Judd said, ICE’s El Paso office told agents it also was at capacity and was refusing family units.

[Eleutheria5]

No need. Take pictures and info on each invader, frog march them one at a time to the wall, grab by collar and seat of pants, and toss them back over. Border patrolmen need exercise, too.

[Pontiac]

And do tell me why the efff do you need judges to say that these low life grass crawling invaders are ILLEGAL when BP or CSO just pulled them out of a loaded van or on a trail that were in a group of 20 led by a coyote.

Actually, I do believe that there are circumstances where the ICE officers can immediately return them to the other side of the border.

I remember that Obama inflated his deportation numbers by counting those as deportations where under Bush they had not.

[John O]

I agree. I’m all in favor of letting the invaders die in the desert. Buzzards got to eat too.

[ReagansShinyHair]

The illegals are not dumb. They know that if they claim they’re minors then they’ll get special treatment. They know that if they claim they’re persecuted then they’ll get special treatment. All their lies only hurt the people who legitimately will die without help.

[John O]

The best part of your solution is that the planes do not land!!! We can rest assured that those particular invaders will never be repeat offenders!!

[Boomer]

We should at least be humane about it. What if we gave them a 3’x3’ bandana and some parachord to slow their descent just before we let them out the bomb bay doors? Maybe they could aim for a hay stack or something.