Biden isn’t even trying to track the millions of immigrants he has released into the country
Conn Carroll
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In the span of just 17 months, President Joe Biden caught and released over 1 million immigrants arrested for illegally crossing the southern border.
He doesn’t know where hundreds of thousands of them even are, and according to a new report released by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, he doesn’t even care.
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Between March 2021 and August 2022, Border Patrol arrested more than 1.3 million immigrants illegally entering the United States and processed them under Title 8. (Other immigrants arrested during this time were processed through Title 42 and returned to Mexico.) At least 1 million of those immigrants arrested under Title 8 were then released into the country.
Supposedly, DHS is tracking these immigrants so they can be removed from the country if they violate the terms of their release into the country. To help track these immigrants, DHS is supposed to obtain an address for each migrant family. The DHS OIG recently completed an audit of 981,671 records from immigrants released into the country between March 2021 and August 2022 and found that addresses for more than 177,000 immigrants were “either missing, invalid for delivery, or not legitimate residential locations.”
Of those addresses that did exist, 80% of them were used by more than one family, and 780 of them were used more than 20 times. It is unclear if these addresses are all overcrowded with multiple families or if immigrants are just using one valid address multiple times without ever living there. The report cites one New Jersey address that was used by seven families comprising 12 adults and 17 children over just 70 days.
The OIG identified four recommendations for DHS to follow so they could better track the immigrants that they release into the country, but DHS rejected all of them. When explaining why they refused to take the OIG recommendation, DHS essentially said each time that tracking immigrants wasn’t a priority.
For example, where the OIG recommended that the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “establish a policy for ICE field personnel to validate migrant addresses,” DHS refused, explaining that “establishing a new policy for ICE personnel to validate addresses or elevate address concerns would be impractical or resource intensive without adding commensurate value.”
Considering that it is Biden administration policy not to expend any effort tracking down, arresting, and deporting immigrants already in the country illegally, of course keeping a working database of where they are has no “commensurate value.”
If you plan to let immigrants who illegally cross the border stay here forever, why bother tracking them at all?