Pirate's Cove

This is really about revenge for Republicans spiking the bad “border security” bill, and you know Biden and his Democrat Comrades will preach that it is Republican’s fault to their compliant media

US to consider mass release of detained migrants over budget woes

A senior US immigration official has said that authorities plan to release thousands of migrants from detention amid a severe budget crunch.

The official from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told CBS, the BBC’s US partner, that between 4,000 and 6,000 migrants could be released.

A bipartisan border bill that would have funded immigration detentions collapsed last week.

More than 6.3 million migrants have entered the US illegally since 2021.

ICE is currently holding about 38,000 migrants in long-term detention facilities.

The bipartisan border bill that faltered due to Republican opposition last week would have earmarked $7.6bn (£6bn) for ICE, including an additional $3.2bn for detention capacity that would have boosted the agency’s ability to house detainees by several thousand beds.

Missing from this BBC News piece is the reality that none of this would be necessary if Biden wasn’t making it so damned easy for illegals to cross the border and just hang in the U.S. with the government, meaning the citizens, having to pay for them.

According to the Washington Post – which first reported the story – the bill’s collapse prompted ICE officials to circulate an internal proposal to slash costs by cutting detentions from 38,000 to 22,000.

While the proposal would see some of the migrants deported back to their home countries, many would be released into the US, the report added.

In other words, most will be released, not deported. Hopefully, they’ll be released in Texas so Greg Abbott can ship them to D.C.