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The Washington Post reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has developed a plan for the “mass release” of illegal immigrants into the United States, as well as moving to reduce the capacity to hold detainees after crossing the southern border.
The report comes just one day after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was officially impeached by the US House of Representatives – the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly 150 years.
According to the Post, the move is necessary to close a $700 million budget deficit. Plans have already been drawn up to begin the “mass release” of illegal aliens, according to multiple ICE and Department of Homeland Security sources.
An “internal proposal to save money” has begun to circulate within the departments which suggests “releasing thousands of prisoners and reducing detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000”.
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ICE threatened this release if Republicans did not relent on the Senate foreign aid bill
The Washington Post report indicates that ICE’s decision to “mass release” illegal immigrants into American communities is a direct response to the Senate’s failure to pass a $118 billion foreign aid bill.
That foreign aid bill included significant funding for foreign wars and a paltry percentage for supposed border security. According to experts, it would provide $6 billion in additional funding for ICE enforcement operations, thus covering the $700 million shortfall.
The White House had threatened to take such action if Republicans did not accept the foreign aid bill.
“Because congressional Republicans are choosing partisan politics over our national security and refusing to pass the bipartisan homeland security agreement that includes significant border reforms and funding, ICE will be forced to scale back operations in the coming weeks due to of budget shortfalls,” the White House press said. Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said before that legislation collapsed.
Now, it seems, they are carrying out that threat, endangering the lives and jobs of the American people after initially trying to blackmail them for more money.
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Mayorkas impeached, Democrat admits they ‘care more’ about illegals
DHS Secretary Mayorkas was impeached Tuesday for his “willful and systematic refusal to uphold the law” and “breach of public trust” – a direct violation of his oath to support and defend the Constitution.
Mayorkas and President Joe Biden implemented a catch-and-release scheme that paved the way for the direct release of millions of illegal immigrants into U.S. communities.
Now they are planning to step up the “mass release” effort. Is this a response to the tanking of the Senate bill? Or is it spite for Mayorkas’ impeachment? Maybe it’s a little of both.
During an MSNBC interview last week, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) pulled back the curtain on his own party by announcing that “undocumented Americans” are the people Democrats “care about the most.”
🚨 Democratic Senator Chris Murphy admits that the Democrats’ immigration “strategy” has “failed to deliver results for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans who are in this country,” so they’re modifying pic.twitter.com/IPXCh0WQi2
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 8, 2024
It’s hard to dispute that it’s what they care about most.
Threatening the American people with a “mass release” of illegal immigrants after not getting foreign aid while simultaneously having already released them en masse for 3 years is just further evidence.
You, the American people, rank very low on the list of concerns.
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