375,000 Illegal Immigrants Released in US in 2019
More than 375,000 of the 473,682 illegal immigrants who were captured going across the U.S.-Mexican border with a family member in fiscal 2019 were released into other parts of the United States, the Washington Examiner reported on Monday.
Those who were released were permitted to go anywhere in the United States that they chose and are awaiting court hearings, along with some three million others, to determine if they will be allowed to remain in the country.
A major reason for the large number of those released was that the Border Patrol last March started letting people go directly from its custody instead of the usual procedure of turning them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Examiner reported.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illegal-immigrants-southern-border-released/2020/02/17/id/954412/
