Drawing another curtain back on the Biden-Harris administration’s border crisis, a new report revealed how dramatically bragged-about enforcement had failed.
In the waning days of Title 42, the Trump administration policy that used COVID as cause to expedite the removal of foreign nationals who’d illegally entered the country, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security assured the border wasn’t open and eligible illegals would continue to be ejected “in a matter of days.”
Now, according to a report from the New York Post, of the roughly 24,000 aliens that had been placed into the Family Expedited Removal Program since May 2023, a vast majority of the over 22,000 had been permitted to remain in the United States.
“These numbers are further proof that the Biden-Harris administration’s policies have nothing to do with actually securing the border or enforcing the law, but instead masking its utter refusal to do either of those things,” House Homeland Security Committee chair Tennessee Rep. Mark Green (R) told the newspaper.
In addition to the report detailing that only 2,600 aliens had been deported under FERM, over 3,600 were believed to be unaccounted for after absconding from the program.
“Such a dismal rate of removals makes clear that President Biden, ‘border czar’ [Vice President] Kamala Harris, and now-impeached DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are committed to ignoring U.S. immigration law while attempting to hide that fact from the American people,” added Green. “Ultimately, these individuals have a simple responsibility — detain and remove those who have no lawful basis to remain.”
When the delayed expiration of Title 42 drew near, Mayorkas said that reliance on “expedited removal” would see illegal aliens removed “in a matter of days” through Title 8 and would be held to a five-year ban from entry.
“High encounters will place a strain on our entire system, including our dedicated, growing workforce and our communities. The smugglers’ propaganda is false. Let me be clear, our border is not open and will not be open after May 11,” the head of DHS said.
On May 11, 2023, Mayorkas appeared to lower those expectations as he said during a White House press briefing, “We announced that eligible families will be placed in expedited removal proceedings, and those that receive a final negative credible fear determination will generally be removed within 30 days of being placed in those proceedings.”
The Post report went on to note the fear determination as a loophole in FERM and that “Even if their claims are denied, they still have the opportunity to have their claim of fear heard by an immigration judge.”
Such a loophole was said to have been used by 25-year-old Jorge Chacon-Gutierrez who had illegally entered the United States in Eagle Pass, Texas in Nov. 2023. After he had been detained and processed for “expedited removal,” the Venezuelan national had been permitted to bring his claim before a judge who vacated the removal order.
He would go on to be arrested after allegedly shooting an officer in San Antonio, Texas in July.
INSIDER: Venezuelan illegal caught and released at border despite warnings, injures TX officer in shootout https://t.co/vXesRDcJNO
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) July 30, 2024
Meanwhile, a report from Catherine Herridge highlighted how DHS whistleblowers had been retaliated against after they came forward with information that the federal agency was in violation of the law for failing to abide by mandated DNA collection.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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