Biden – Harris plan to speed up deportation of illegal immigrant families was a colossal failure: report

Pulling back another curtain on the Biden-Harris administration's border crisis, a new report revealed how law enforcement had spectacularly failed.

In the final days of Title 42, the Trump administration's policy that used COVID as a pretext to speed up the deportation of aliens who had entered the country illegally, President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security said that the border was not open and that eligible illegals would. continue to be expelled “within days”.

Now, according to report of the New York Post, of the approximately 24,000 aliens who had been placed in the Expedited Family Removal Program since May 2023, the vast majority of more than 22,000 had been allowed to remain in the United States.

“These numbers are further proof that the policies of the Biden-Harris administration have nothing to do with securing the border or enforcing the law, but instead mask their complete refusal to do either of those things,” he said the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Tennessee representative Mark. Green (R) told the newspaper.

In addition to the report detailing that only 2,600 aliens had been deported under FERM, more than 3,600 were believed to be missing after fleeing the program.

“Such a dismal deportation rate makes it clear that President Biden, 'border tsar' [Vice President] Kamala Harris and now-impeached DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are committed to ignoring US immigration law while trying to hide this fact from the American people,” Green added. “Ultimately, these people have a simple responsibility: to arrest and remove those who have no legal basis to remain.”

With the delayed expiration of Title 42 approaching, Mayorkas said reliance on “expedited deportation” would see illegal aliens. deleted “within days” through Title 8 and would have a five-year entry ban.

“High-profile encounters will put a strain on our entire system, including our dedicated and growing workforce and our communities. The smugglers' propaganda is false. Let me be clear, our border is not open and we will not will open after May 11,” the DHS chief said.

On May 11, 2023, Mayorkas appeared to downplay those expectations as he said during a White House press conference“We announced that eligible families will be placed in expedited removal proceedings, and those who receive a final negative credible fear determination will generally be removed within 30 days of being placed in those proceedings.”

The Post report went on to point to the fear determination as a loophole in FERM and that “even if their claims are denied, they still have an opportunity to have their fear claim heard by an immigration judge.” .

This loophole was said to have been used by 25-year-old Jorge Chacon-Gutierrez, who had illegally entered the United States in Eagle Pass, Texas, in November 2023. After being arrested and prosecuted for a ” expedited expulsion,” the The Venezuelan national had been authorized to file his lawsuit before a judge who overturned the deportation order.

He would be arrested after allegedly shooting an officer in San Antonio, Texas, in July.

INSIDER: Illegal Venezuelan caught and released at border despite warnings, Texas officer injured in shootout https://t.co/vXesRDcJNO

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) July 30, 2024

Meanwhile, a report by Catherine Herridge highlighted how DHS whistleblowers had been retaliated against after filing information that the federal agency was breaking the law by failing to comply with mandated DNA collection.

Staff writer

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he's not researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel the

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