Bingo! Totally meaningless until “catch and release” is terminated.
I don’t understand why they can’t be given a hearing date at the border crossing, then sent back across the border to Mexico, which has allowed them to be or where they are from. Then, on hearing date, present their papers at the border, hold the hearing out in the hot sun, or may at a NG supplied tent, turn down their application and again send them back across the border.
If you take this news literally it means that crossers will be taken into custody, charged with a crime, stay in custody, be sentenced then deported. In other words the crosser is in prison until deportation. The effect is to gut catch and release. The exception is that kids will go to foater carebtil deportation.