Retired Border Patrol Chief Aaron Heitke, who left his position at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in early 2023, says President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s administration has worked to hide the mass release of migrants into American communities.
During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday, Heitke detailed the breakdown of federal immigration enforcement at the United States-Mexico border on Biden and Harris’s watch.
The actions they took, Heitke said, started with limiting the ability of DHS to return migrants to their home countries and cutting migrant detention space which then forced the agency to start mass releasing migrants into the U.S. interior.
Heitke told the Committee:
Throughout the first three plus years of this administration, I saw a steady decrease in countries we could send people back to. For the first time in my 25 years and under five different administrations, whether through neglect or on purpose, I saw a large-scale lapse in our ability to return people to their country of origin. The inability to send people home meant that most people being arrested for illegal entry would either have to be detained or released. [Emphasis added]
The current administration, however, from day one, made a point of decreasing the amount of detention space available nationwide. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s funding for detention space has steadily been cut and private detention eliminated. [Emphasis added]
The fact that so many illegal aliens were being released into the United States spread worldwide very quickly. As this happened the numbers the Border Patrol encountered illegally crossing the border increased exponentially. [Emphasis added] […]
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