Nearly 1 million migrants staying indefinitely in US under Biden-Harris quiet amnesty: House panel

Almost 1 million illegal migrants have been given “quiet amnesty” under President Biden and Vice President Kalama Harris, according to an eye-opening House panel report.The House Judiciary Committee released a 16-page report Thursday revealing that more than 700,000 migrants have had their immigration cases dismissed, terminated, or administratively closed as the US grapples with an overwhelming surge at the southern border under the progressive administration.In addition, the Department of Homeland Security failed to even file the necessary documentationto begin immigration court removal proceedings in roughly 200,000 cases, the report found.“Through administrative maneuvering at both the Justice Department and DHS, the Biden-Harris Administration has already ensured that nearly 1 million illegal aliens can remain in the United States without the possibility of deportation — and that trend shows no sign of stopping,” the Republican-led committee said.“This sort of quiet amnesty has become a staple of the Biden-Harris Administration’s immigration courts.”The data compiled by the House committee — which tracked immigration cases between Jan.20, 2021, and June 30, 2024 — found that the vast majority of the migrants had their cases dismissed, with a total of 459,356 cases dismissed over the almost four-year period.

Meanwhile, 172,645 were terminated and 71,465 cases were administratively closed.That is a whopping 575% increase from the more than 104,000 migrants who had their cases dismissed, terminated or administratively closed under the Trump administration, according to a Post analysis of data.Just 90,692 immigration cases were terminated under former President Donald Trump’s term, according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.That figure also includes those cases that were dismissed, as the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review didn’t split the two categories...