Beto: I Wouldn’t Call It ‘Catch and Release’ But It Would Be Catch and Release – IOTW Report

Beto: I Wouldn’t Call It ‘Catch and Release’ But It Would Be Catch and Release

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Democratic presidential candidate Robert Francis ‘Beto’ O’Rourke expressed disagreement with the term “catch-and-release” as it applied to illegal immigrants, instead preferring to call it “helping those who are seeking asylum in this country to follow our laws” during an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday.

“So there are about 16,000 migrants in U.S. detention facilities right now. What should happen to them?” host Margaret Brennan asked.

“Most of those asylum-seeking migrants pose no threat or danger to the United States. We know from past history that when we connect them with case managers in a community they have a 99% chance of meeting their court dates and their appointments with ICE, and it costs us one-tenth of what we pay to keep them in detention and in custody,” O’Rourke said.

“So in other words ‘catch-and-release’ is something you support?” Brennan asked.

“I wouldn’t call it ‘catch-and-release.’ I would call it helping those who are seeking asylum in this country to follow our laws,” O’Rourke responded. “If at the end of that process they must return to their country of origin, I want to make sure they go back to the country from which they left in the first place.”

Brennan asked for O’Rourke to clarify whether would seek to detain those who enter the United States illegally.

“Not necessarily in every case, but I think vast majority of families and children who are fleeing the deadliest countries on the face of the planet, who are seeking asylum in this country, they don’t try the flee arrest, they don’t try to evade detection, those families pose no threat or risk to this country.”  more here

12 Comments on Beto: I Wouldn’t Call It ‘Catch and Release’ But It Would Be Catch and Release

  1. “….. when we connect them with case managers in a community they have a 99% chance of meeting their court dates and their appointments with ICE …..”

    I haven’t heard that statistic before, anyone know where it’s from and how it is determined?

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  2. “… helping those who are seeking asylum in this country to follow our laws.”

    Which they’ve already broken by being here?
    And they aren’t “seeking asylum” – they’re seeking “free shit” – they are parasites – just like most politicians.
    YUGE difference.

    izlamo delenda est …

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  3. Our govt “poverty line” qualifies as upper middle class in the immigrants’ countries. Doesn’t take a genius to see that they aren’t coming here for the ideology.

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