On Monday, February 25, 2019, a group of illegal aliens were apprehended by Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents near Yuma, AZ. The Yuma Sector continues to see a large number of Central Americans per day crossing illegally and surrendering to agents. CBP photo by Jerry Glaser.
UPDATE 12.20.23: In the NY Post, Andrew Arthur assigns a grim reasoning to Joe Biden’s abandonment of America’s borders. Arthur suggests that Biden wants a border collapse in order to prepare the groundwork for mass amnesty. Arthur writes:
By law, DHS can’t deport those applying for asylum until judges order them removed. In non-detained cases, that takes years, time those aliens can live and work here while acquiring equities (houses, children) that will make it even more difficult to send them out.
The only way to make this system work is to limit the number of new aliens entering illegally, and the only way to curb illegal entries is detention, where cases take 42 days on average. But President Biden largely refuses to detain illegal migrants, even though the law demands it.
Agents can bypass that immigration-court process using “expedited removal,” a tool Congress gave them in 1996 to dissuade aliens from making bogus asylum claims simply to gain access to the United States.
The administration, however, largely won’t let them use that tool. Of all the 1.496 million aliens apprehended at the border in FY 2023 who weren’t expelled under Title 42, fewer than 12% were subject to expedited removal. By contrast, more than 900,000 others (60.7%) were simply cut loose.
All of this adds to the burdens on judges, who won’t be able to dig themselves out of this backlog for a decade or more. That only benefits the illegal aliens — not the interests of justice.
One of Biden’s first acts as president was to send Congress an amnesty bill covering nearly every illegal immigrant here and opening the door for aliens deported under Trump to return. The White House blames the border crisis on Republicans for blocking it, but even Speaker Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t touch it.
Biden has given up on that amnesty, and if he couldn’t cajole Congress to pass it, perhaps he’s decided to break the immigration system, force members to legalize all those who have entered illegally and start from scratch.
Originally posted October 5, 2022.
The Biden administration’s ICE has let a record number of illegal immigrants loose in America with GPS monitoring devices. The Daily Caller’s Jennie Taer reports:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a record number of illegal migrants with tracking devices and phones, according to new agency data.
As of Sept. 24, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had 316,700 illegal migrants enrolled in what is known as “Alternatives to Detention,” which uses a facial recognition application, GPS monitoring and telephonic reporting, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which obtains data through Freedom of Information Act requests.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in June that most participants were unenrolled before their immigration proceedings concluded, finding that about a quarter of those taken out of the program that were placed on other forms of monitoring fled. The program’s technology is costing taxpayers $361,218.08 per day, according to ICE.
In fiscal year 2021, there were 136,026 illegal migrants enrolled in the program. And, in fiscal year 2020, there were 91,793 illegal migrants enrolled in the program at the end of the year.
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