The Biden administration has let 99% of migrants who have come over the border since 2021 — over two million people — stay in the country according to a new Congressional report released by House Republicans Monday.
The report found “at least” 2,148,738 illegal aliens had been released into the United States by the Department of Homeland Security from when Joe Biden came into office until March 31, 2023.
Of those, only a small fraction have been properly vetted to test their claims of asylum, the study asserts.
“A mere six percent of illegal aliens released into the United States were even screened for fear of persecution [in their home country] for purposes of asylum,” read the study initiated by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock.
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“This data contradict[s] Secretary Mayorkas’ statements that the southwest border is closed and that illegal aliens are ‘quickly’ removed,” it states.
“Instead, with more than 99 percent of illegal aliens staying inside the United States after being released by the Biden Administration, there is virtually no enforcement of our immigration laws.”
The report also noted that due to the huge numbers of people crossing illegally into the US, overwhelmed officials are often unable to fully complete their duties.
It noted: “Because of the unprecedented border crisis, some Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) officers have been forced to abandon arrests and removals of aliens, including criminal aliens, to process the illegal aliens who have arrived at the southwest border.”
Meanwhile, thousands of migrants are continuing to pour across the southern border every day.
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Migrants from a medley of nations are gathering in arid Jacumbo Hot Springs — roughly 75 miles east of San Diego — and slipping into the country as overwhelmed border agents look on.
“The agents are swamped and they are very straightforward about the fact that this is not their job, this is not what they are set up to do they were never set up to do something like this,” said Samuel Schultz, a staffer with a migrant assistance organization. “They are slammed.”
Schultz told Border Report migrants pull up to an area where a border wall ends and wait until they are able to enter American soil.
“You can see the clouds of dust on the roads south of the border, you know they are coming,” he said. “It’s an ebb and flow, 600 one day, then 300 the next, then back to 600, it’s up and down.”
Rather than attempt to stanch the tidal wave of illegal immigrants, border agents serve to manage the influx in Jacumbo, according to the report.
They prioritize women and children for entry and prepare them for transport to a border facility roughly 30 miles away.
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Jacumbo became a popular destination for border crossers in May, drawing thousands of migrants as the Title 42 expulsion laws neared expiration.
Migrant supporters have criticized processing facilities in the area as harsh “detention” camps, prompting a response from border officials this week.
“The U.S. Border Patrol, San Diego Sector is currently experiencing irregular levels of migration between official ports of entry,” the agency said in a statement.
“This level of migration is spurred by criminal smuggling organizations who continue to exploit vulnerable migrant populations for profit. To address current migration patterns, the San Diego Sector Border Patrol is leveraging all available resources to encounter, transport, and process migrants as expeditiously and safely as possible while simultaneously upholding other vital border security priorities.”
After the expiration of pandemic-era Title 42 measures in May the Biden administration said it would get tough on immigation and only allow people into the country who had a sponsor and paperwork and who had completed forms and made an appointment via a phone app.
However, it was quickly realised that was not the case and unprecedented levels of migrants arrivng at the US border to seek asylum have continued since that time.
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Plans were also announced to start deporting people directly back to Venezuela, the country where the majority of migrants are originating from.
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https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/biden-has-let-99-of-migrants-stay-in-us-since-2021-report/amp/
