House Republicans confronted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for setting millions of illegal immigrants free in the United States instead of requiring that they be detained while awaiting their day in immigration court.
“There are thousands of beds available per day, roughly 9,000 on average in FY 2022, 3,000 a day in FY 2023,” Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., said, according to the Washington Examiner. “Yet the arguments before the Supreme Court and in your testimony before here to Congress had been that the resources are overwhelmed and therefore we have to just catch and release these people into the country."
According to the Immigration and Nationality Act, federal law enforcement “shall detain” illegal aliens through court proceedings; the Biden administration has reportedly been selective in whom it decides to detain, however, releasing millions into the country, with some being monitored through electronic tracking devices.
“When the relevant provisions of the INA were passed in 1996, there were fewer than 10,000 beds while apprehensions were routinely over 1 million,” the department said. “Congress has never provided the funding for detaining every individual who crosses illegally.”
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