CBP Released More than 55,000 Migrants at the Border in December
Dismantling the immigration system, and border security with it
By Andrew R. Arthur on January 21, 2022
CBP’s statistics on the number of illegal migrants apprehended at the Southwest border in December are late — again — but on January 19, Fox News reported that encounters there were up in that normally slow travel month, to more than 178,800 from fewer than 174,000 in November. Most shockingly, however, that report revealed that the agency released more than 55,000 of those migrants into the United States. The Biden administration is dismantling the immigration system before our eyes.
The Fox reporting is based upon disclosures that the government is required to make under Texas v. Biden, a case that I have analyzed extensively in the past. At issue there is whether DHS erred in its terminating the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as “Remain in Mexico”.
DHS Is Required to Detain Illegal Migrants — Unless They Are Paroled or Returned to Mexico. It would be more correct to state that Texas is facially about DHS’s attempted termination of MPP, but factually the case has much more to do with how the Biden administration is handling the ongoing disaster at the Southwest border.
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