Department of Homeland Security Announces End to ‘Catch and Release’ – IOTW Report

Department of Homeland Security Announces End to ‘Catch and Release’

Epoch Times:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ending the policy known as “catch and release” next week, as announced by Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan on Monday, Sept. 23, at a Council on Foreign Relations event in Washington.

“What we’re doing with Central American families now that’s ending the catch and release process is that if they don’t have a fear or claim, they’re going to be repatriated in a streamline fashion, or if they do have a fear or claim, asked to wait under the Migrant Protection Protocols in Mexico,” he said.

“So they will not be currently held on the U.S. side of the border, even in the family residential centers, because we’re not able right now to complete an immigration proceeding, while in the 21 days we have by court order,” McAleenan added.

In March, Border Patrol began releasing families directly from its custody into the United States, with a notice to appear in court after facilities became overrun, with tens of thousands still on the way to the border, and 114,000 apprehensions at the southern border since the beginning of 2019, according to Customs and Border Protection data. read more

6 Comments on Department of Homeland Security Announces End to ‘Catch and Release’

  1. Countdown to a minor court in HI, or some other obscure court, putting an injunction on it, despite:

    ‘The first, he said, relates to a new internal final rule (IFR) to come out, as a result of a Supreme court decision, to block a nationwide injunction from a federal judge.’

    I hope it holds. Never trust the left.

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  2. That’s good news but the harm is already done. If we don’t concentrate our efforts on cleaning up voter fraud we’re sunk. That’s the issue that’s still very much in question.

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