Washington Post: Feds to Reverse Biden’s ‘Catch and Release’ Strategy
by Neil Munro 15 Jul 2025
President Donald Trump’s deputies have reversed the Democrats’ “catch and release” migration strategy and are now enforcing the federal law that requires migrants to be detained until their asylum claims are resolved.
Immigration “lawyers say the policy will apply to millions of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few decades, including under the Biden administration,” says an unhappy article in the Washington Post.:
In a July 8 memo, Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told officers that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years …
In the past, immigrants residing in the U.S. interior generally have been allowed [by Democratic Party appointees] to request a bond hearing [and release] before an immigration judge. But Lyons wrote that the Trump administration’s departments of Homeland Security and Justice had “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and determined that such immigrants “may not be released from ICE custody.” In rare exceptions immigrants may be released on parole, but that decision will be up to an immigration officer, not a judge, he wrote.
https://www.alipac.us/f12/washington-post-feds-reverse-biden%92s-%91catch-release%92-strategy-431606/
