Nearly 48,000 migrants released at southern border fail to check in with ICE
by JILLIAN SMITH, The National Desk
FILE - A pair of migrant families from Brazil wait to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents after passing through a gap in the border wall from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., Thursday, June 10, 2021, to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)
WASHINGTON (TND) — Nearly 48,000 migrants who were released at the southern border in roughly a five-month period with a notice to report have disappeared, failing to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as required.
ADVERTISEMENT
The revelation came in a letter from the Department of Homeland Security to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.
DHS could now arrest and deport them — if they can find them.
ADVERTISEMENT
In Del Rio, Texas sector, the chief patrol agent says more than 2,700 people were apprehended over the weekend, pointing out that there were more than 70 unaccompanied children in that group and nearly three dozen people originally from Uzbekistan.
Load more...