A Homeland Security official told a federal judge Monday that the department generally has complied with his order to stop issuing “parole” to illegal immigrants last Thursday, saying that while some people were officially released after the judge’s deadline, they had been “fully processed” before that.
But David S. Bemiller, a senior official at Customs and Border Protection, said there are 167 cases that they haven’t been able to nail down — including 130 people who don’t have a processing time listed, and 37 people whose files show they were processed after the deadline.had ordered the administration to explain itself after The Washington Times reported some 2,500 people were paroled after his temporary restraining order took effect Thursday at 11:59 p.m.
Mr. Bemiller said they paroled a total of 6,413 people in all, or roughly 2,000 fewer than The Times’ source indicated. “Consequently, USBP released on May 12, 2023 these noncitizens who had already been fully processed prior to the time the TRO took effect.” Mr. Bemiller said.had issued a show-cause order to Homeland Security to explain what happened.“However, the Court takes allegations of noncompliance with its orders very seriously, irrespective of the source of the allegations,” the judge wrote.
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