Posted on 01/08/2022 12:01:36 AM PST by blueplum
The Biden administration has cut detentions of illegal immigrants despite the historic surge across the border, and it is relying more on ankle bracelets to monitor migrants despite reports they don’t work.
Syracuse University’s Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse, which charts federal immigration statistics, said that just 20,623 illegal immigrants are being detained, down from 22,000, raising questions from critics about where thousands of other border-crossers are....
...An Arizona Sun Times report quoted the mayor of Yuma saying that just 1% of those nabbed by border agents are being deported....
...“The historical data clearly shows any alternative to detention has been a colossal failure,” said Mark A. Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
“Without the ability of ICE to detain an illegal alien while they go through their immigration proceedings, is simply a continuation of catch and release. An ankle monitor does nothing to deter an illegal alien from absconding in defiance of a court order of removal. This is yet another intentional self-inflicted action by this administration to incentivize illegal immigration and further reduce ICE’s ability to enforce the law,” he told Secrets.
Jessica M. Vaughan, the director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, said the new data suggest that the administration is continuing to turn its attention away from the border crisis....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
A Democrat-sanctioned invasion.
Shock???
Who hasn’t known about this for nearly a year?
Or even longer, because even during the campaign they said they would open the border and cripple ICE.
Should this be in the BREAKING section? LOL!
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