Officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection received yet another directive from the Biden Administration ordering them to increase migrant releases, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Breitbart reports,
On Tuesday, the number of migrants held in detention across the southwest border neared 20,000 following a renewed surge of migrant crossings. The directive called for the release of migrant family unit members into the United States in lieu of removal under Title 8.
As of Tuesday, the detention count had been reduced by nearly 2,000 migrants and remained slightly above 17,000 migrants held in custody of the agency at temporary detention centers. No expiration date for the order to release migrants was given, and according to the confidential source who is not authorized to speak to media, the releases will be a short-term “decompression” measure in place until migrant custody numbers reach a more manageable level.
The source added that the DHS directive did not limit the release of alien family units by nationality or reason for illegally entering the United States - “No process of qualifying for relief or conduct of asylum credible fear hearings was mandated.”
Of course, the news of expanded releases directly contradicts the media messaging by CBP regarding the supposedly enforced penalties associated with Title 8 immigration authority - used since the end of Title 42.
“On Tuesday evening, after conducting wide-scale releases of migrant family units from multiple countries, the agency reiterated via social media. ‘The U.S. border is not open to irregular migration,’ the message states. ‘Don’t listen to the lies of smugglers, U.S. immigration policies have not changed. Under Title 8, individuals and families who arrive without authorization will be subject to removal and can be returned to their country of origin,’” according to Breitbart News.
The source states that the split-tongued messaging irritates the morale of agents at the border, who recognize that it “seems more like propaganda than policy.”
The anonymous source concluded:
To allege consequences will be applied and that smugglers lie about releases flies in the face of reality when it comes on the very day we are instructed to release as many migrant family unit members as we possible can to bring the detention numbers down.
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