On January 27, Bill Melugin from Fox News reported that illegal migrants - including some with criminal records - are being released at the Southwest border in Texas.
That's bad. What's worse is that taxpayers are paying the fees for some of those migrants to travel into the interior, with one ICE agent complaining: "The Biden administration has turned ICE ERO into an unofficial travel coordination agency".
An unidentified ICE agent told Melugin that "This has been discreetly going on since last spring", and that his agency "Has been releasing migrants with misdemeanor criminal records including assault, DUI, drug possession, and illegal reentry".
Even if DHS could release illegal migrants under section 236(a) of the INA, section 236(c) of the INA requires DHS to detain certain criminal aliens.
The agent explained that they work with nongovernmental organizations, which then go to the families of those migrants to ask for an address in the United States and for a bus or plane ticket for the migrants "To the city of their choosing".
Why is ICE being punished? It appears to be nothing more than simple math in the minds of many of the president's advisors: Donald Trump liked immigration enforcement; ICE does immigration enforcement; Trump = bad; so through the transitive property, ICE = bad. Of course, ICE never did anything Congress didn't tell them to do, but in the opinion of the White House it deserves to be punished by being forced to do the opposite of what its agents signed up for.
The citizens of the United States elected the representatives who wrote the immigration mandates the Biden administration is now ignoring, and American taxpayers are now being forced to pay to send illegal migrants - including criminals - into communities nationwide.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Taxpayers-Paying-Fly-Criminal-Migrants-Interior
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