Internal Border Patrol data, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation, show that despite the Biden administration touting fewer migrant encounters at the southern border, thousands still cross the border into the interior of the country. said to have been released.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday that encounters with illegal immigrants have dropped by more than 70% since Title 42, the deportation order put in place during the coronavirus pandemic during the Trump administration, was lifted. Announced. But internal data show that hundreds of illegal immigrants are being released into the interior every day to face court dates. (Related: Exclusive: Former Trump official testifies to Biden administration defying immigration laws in handling border crisis)

The Biden administration has also expanded the use of CBP One, an app that allows immigrants to make reservations to enter the United States through ports of entry, allowing about 40,000 entries per month. This is in addition to the release of illegal immigrants. There is also a humanitarian parole program that allows 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans a month to enter the country for two years if they have US sponsorship.

Homeland Security says this is illegal encounter The southern border has seen an average of 3,400 cases per day since 12 May.

On Thursday alone, border guards released 1,147 illegal immigrants, most of whom crossed the southern border and entered the country with a trial date, according to internal data. A Border Patrol officer working along the southern border, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly, told the DCNF that officers release between 1,000 and 2,000 illegal immigrants a day.

“Senior officers in the Border Patrol are too busy slapping themselves on the backs of keeping the department’s capacity at the cost of releasing 1,000 to 2,000 illegal immigrants into the interior of the United States each day,” he said. said the official.

An average of approximately 4,470 immigrants enter the country each day through the illegal immigration and CBP One processes. according to to DHS.

Blas Nunez Neto, assistant secretary for border and immigration policy at the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Strategy, Policy and Planning, told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security on Tuesday that the new program ” It works,” he testified. Enforcement Hearing.

“However, we are aware that hemispheric conditions still exist that are causing unprecedented movements of people, and that cartels and coyotes are concerned about possible policy changes at borders to endanger the lives of immigrants. We are aware that continuing to spread disinformation is at risk for “profit.” We remain vigilant and will continue to execute our plans, making adjustments as necessary,” Nuneznet added.

Despite the Biden administration’s remarks, the subcommittee’s Republican chairman, Clay Higgins, said at Tuesday’s hearing that he was playing a “shell game.”

“In the way the numbers are actually documented and reported, what we observed was rather a shell game, despite Secretary Mayorcas and other DHS officials advising the American public regarding the decline in numbers. We found something,” Higgins said.

“While the number of persons entering the United States without proper documentation is certainly still at record levels we saw before the end of Title 42, the classification of those persons and their The way it’s brought in is very strict. It’s been subtly altered by the administration,” Higgins said.

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