Under Biden DHS Has Released More Than 756,000 Southwest Border Migrants
Not counting more than 146,000 kids and 620,000 ‘got-aways’ — and the president has no plan to stop it
By Andrew R. Arthur on April 14, 2022
Back in November, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “estimated” that 375,000 illegal migrants encountered by CBP at the Southwest border were “still here” (read: released), as well as some 125,000 unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Court-ordered disclosures in Texas v. Biden provide a better picture of DHS releases of illegal migrants at the Southwest border: By my count, there have been more than 756,000 of them since Joe Biden took office on January 20, 2021.
Texas v. Biden. Briefly, Texas is a suit brought by the states of Texas and Missouri in April 2021 challenging the Biden administration’s suspension of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, better known as “Remain in Mexico”). That matter was assigned to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
On June 1, while that case was pending, Mayorkas issued a memo terminating MPP. That termination decision was rolled into the pending case brought by the states.
On August 13, Judge Kacsmaryk issued an order enjoining Mayorkas’s termination of MPP. Part of that order required DHS to report monthly on the number of CBP encounters at the Southwest border, the number of aliens expelled under public-health orders issued by CDC under Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the number released into the United States.
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