The Department of Homeland Security is far short on detention space and will have to release illegal immigrants to prepare for a surge of newcomers at the border next month, the country’s deportation chief told Congress on Tuesday.
Tae Johnson, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said he had sought thousands more detention beds in the agency’s new budget, but higher-ups in the Biden administration rejected that idea.
That was cold comfort to Rep. Dave Joyce, Ohio Republican and chairman of the subcommittee that oversees ICE’s funding. He pointed out that the U.S. doesn’t have access to criminal histories from many other countries.“We don’t have access to many of those countries’ records,” Mr. Johnson admitted. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified Tuesday before the Senate and has a hearing slated before the House on Wednesday. Customs and Border Protection, ICE’s sister agency in immigration enforcement, also is slated to appear before the House Wednesday.
“We do anticipate a surge in the number of encounters,” Mr. Mayorkas told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Mr. Biden has repeatedly pushed for fewer detention beds, bowing to demands from immigration activists who argue illegal immigrants shouldn’t be held at all. “In my personal view I wish the 34,000 beds would have been in my base [budget] and then I would have been able to gain access to, you know, 5,000 or 10,000 beds as part of the contingency fund, but it didn’t shake out that way,” he said.
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