Going nowhere: Case study finds 99% of Biden’s illegal immigrant ‘parolees’ still in U.S.
Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. A federal judge in Texas on Friday, March 8, 2024, upheld a key piece of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that allows a limited number of migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, dismissing a challenge from Republican-led states that said the program created an economic burden on them.
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Just 1% of the illegal immigrants caught and released in a special test case two years ago have actually left the U.S., according to ICE data that underscores how difficult a job the Trump administration faces in trying to unwind the Biden border surge.
The numbers come from a group of 2,572 illegal immigrants the Border Patrol caught and released in May 2023, just as the Biden administration ended the Title 42 pandemic border policy.
Thanks to a snafu, the administration defied a court’s orders in releasing the migrants and, for the past two years, has had to report on their status to U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II. The findings are stark.
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