President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing a plan that includes a “mass release” into the United States of illegal aliens currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, new reports show. This was revealed in a report.
by washington postAs the Biden administration claims it needs billions of dollars in funding from Congress to avoid carrying out what appears to be a quasi-extortion scheme, DHS has given ICE more information on the thousands of people the agency has in its custody. The government is considering releasing illegal immigrants to American cities and towns.
of post report:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has developed a plan to release thousands of immigrants Four ICE and Homeland Security officials said they reduced their detention capacity after the Senate failed a border bill that would have closed a $700 million budget shortfall. [Emphasis added]
…
Although some of the proposed cost reductions in ICE detention would be achieved through staffing reductions, i.e. deportations; Much of that will need to be accomplished through mass releases of detainees, officials said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss internal deliberations. [Emphasis added]
RJ Howman of the National Center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (NICE) said President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has been given more funding for detention space than it requested, and is unable to spend the money allocated by Congress. suggested that it was not.
“Congress gave the Biden administration more money than it asked for to detain illegal aliens. So what is ICE spending the money on that has created this self-imposed budget gap?” Howman said. told Breitbart News.
Congress has given the Biden administration “more” funding than it requested to detain illegal aliens. So what is ICE spending money on that created this self-imposed budget gap?
Also note that the Trump administration was able to exceed its quota of detention beds. https://t.co/6Q5yWLXirh
— National Immigration Center (@NICEnforcement) February 14, 2024
“The first thing to consider is pilot programs to provide social services to illegal aliens and inadequate detention management,” Hauman continued. “Also note that the Trump administration was able to significantly exceed its detention bed allotment. It’s not too much.”
Already, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has significantly reduced the number of illegal aliens arrested and held in ICE custody across the interior of the United States, often with pending criminal charges or convictions. There is.
for example, 11,000 An illegal alien arrested by ICE agents in the interior of the United States is in ICE custody today. Compare this number to May 2019, when more than 19,500 illegal aliens were arrested by ICE agents and held in ICE custody.
In total, more than 3 in 10 illegal aliens in ICE custody, including those apprehended near the southern border and apprehended by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), have either pending criminal charges or convictions. is recieving.
Biden’s draft plan would almost guarantee that illegal aliens with such convictions and pending criminal charges would be released into the interior of the United States under the guise of a lack of funding for government agencies.
Last week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said unless the House and Senate pass billions of dollars in funding for DHS to more quickly move border crossers and supporting NGOs into the U.S. interior. Biden has said he could reduce the number of deportations made by ICE agents. process.
As Breitbart News has reported, Biden has consistently reduced deportations of even the most violent criminals, illegal aliens. Mr. Biden is deporting about one illegal alien for every 70 who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the latest ICE data.
ICE’s fiscal year 2023 deportation numbers also reveal that the country’s 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens are unlikely to be deported. For example, last year, illegal aliens had less than a 5 percent chance of being deported from the United States by ICE agents.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Please email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
