Border Patrol released 283,000 migrants into US over past year, 95,000 untracked

More than 283,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico this past year were let into the United States, despite the Biden administration’s claims that it was immediately turning away adults and families, the Washington Examiner has learned.

The extremely high number of releases at the southern border, based on unreleased Border Patrol data shared with the Washington Examiner by Rep. Henry Cuellar, means that one-in-six of the 1.66 million people who walked across between land ports of entry were let go directly by the Border Patrol between Oct. 1, 2020, and Sept. 30.

The releases in question are separate from instances in which hundreds of thousands of other migrants were also released into the U.S. by other government entities, including the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement and Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“The Mexican president and the Guatemalan president are saying that the [Biden] administration has given the impression of open borders,” said Cuellar, a Democrat whose district sits on the Texas-Mexico border. “You can imagine what’s the word on the street over there, and that’s why we keep getting people coming in.” Border Patrol agents are so overwhelmed with the volume of illegal immigrants showing up this year that they started releasing migrants out of the back doors of their stations without providing them legal documents that mandate they appear before an immigration judge about their unlawful entry or asylum claim… (Excerpt from the Washington Examiner)