House Homeland Security Chairman Calls Biden’s Immigration Removal Rates “Disgraceful”

Daily Report August 13,2024

An expedited deportation effort by the Biden-Harris administration to quickly expel families who crossed into the U.S. illegally has led only to nearly 90% of these migrants being allowed to remain in America, newly released data show.

For a plan that has been in place only since May 2023, the Family Expedited Removal Program is booming.

Internal reports also detail that more than 3,600 have escaped from the program and are presumably at large in the U.S.

“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 Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) told The Post.

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“Such a dismal rate of removals makes clear that President Biden, ‘border czar’ 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. Ultimately, these individuals have a simple responsibility — detain and remove those who have no lawful basis to remain,” Green added.

The program was first pitched as a way to “impose consequences for illegal entry into the US,” with an ankle monitor to be attached to one adult family member.

The Family Expedited Removal Program sought to address the difficulty of deporting families apprehended with children, and would prevent these family units from being split up while this expedited removal took place. But it has been set back by glaring loopholes, such as allowing those who face deportation to pass a so-called “credible fear” interview where screening officers check if they have legitimate fears of returning home.

Even if they are denied, then the case is heard before an immigration judge.

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green called the removal rates for families in the program “disgraceful.”

The program was set up to handle an expected spike in illegal border traffic after Title 42, a Trump-era COVID-19 expulsion policy, ran out.

More than 800,000 migrant family members have been picked up crossing the southern border illegally since the program began in May of 2023, according to federal data.