Trump orders Border Patrol to immediately stop setting illegal migrants free in the US: Catch and release is ended

Goodbye catch-and-release, hello catch-and-deport.Migrants who are caught illegally crossing the US border will no longer be set free in the US while they await their immigration hearings.Instead, they’ll be taken into custody until they can be deported, Homeland Security sources told The Post.Border Patrol agents were given the edict by the Trump administration on President Trump’s first full day in office Tuesday.

It represents a seismic shift from the “catch-and-release” open border days of the Biden administration, during which around 8 million illegal immigrants flooded into the country.Under the new orders, illegal migrants stopped at the border can only be released with the approval of from the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in Washington.Under Biden, migrants often waltzed across the border with no fear of being turned back — emboldened by early signals by the administration that America’s borders were open.After Border Patrol agents detained migrants at the border, they would attempt to ascertain their identities and make sure they didn’t already have deportation orders or criminal records in the US.Failing that, migrants would usually be turned loose with a court date — with no mechanism in place to force compliance.These policies resulted in numerous high-profile murders and other crimes across the US — including the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley by a Venezuelan gang member and the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray — allegedly by two migrants who were released at the border just weeks before.The free-for-all under the prior administration also let hundreds of migrants with ties to terrorist groups like ISIS to slip across the border — some of them later nabbed in cities like Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia.Border agents who previously spoke with The Post fumed about having to release migrants without proper vetting.

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