Border Patrol memo instructs agents to release migrants from nearly all Eastern Hemisphere countries
Memo sent after President Biden's executive order banning asylum for most illegal crossers took effect last week
Stepheny Price By Stepheny Price , Bill Melugin , Griff Jenkins Fox News
Published June 9, 2024 4:49pm EDT
An internal Border Patrol memo, obtained by Fox News, instructs agents in the San Diego sector to release single adults from all but six countries in the Eastern Hemisphere and classify them as "hard" or "very hard" to remove.
The memo was sent out after President Biden's executive order banning asylum for most illegal immigrants took effect last week.
Biden announced the order on Tuesday and said he was "moving past Republican obstruction and using executive authorities available to me as president to do what I can on my own to address the border."
Details in the memo, first reported by the Washington Examiner's Anna Giaritelli, instructs agents that all single adults from the Eastern Hemisphere are to be processed via "NTA/OR," which means Notice to Appear/released on Own Recognizance, except for migrants from Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan – which are "mandatory referral" countries.
There are more than 100 countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, meaning that despite the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and President Biden's threats of consequences and promises to remove migrants who cross illegally under the new executive order, the overwhelming majority of the migrants in the San Diego sector are being released into the U.S.
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