Border Patrol Starts Releasing Asylum-Seeking Migrants To South Texas Streets
The move is an apparent return by the government to the practice President Trump has called "catch and release" and promised to end when he was a presidential candidate.
The U.S. Border Patrol is releasing asylum-seeking migrants who were recently apprehended in Texas' Rio Grande Valley without detaining them because officials say detention facilities are full to capacity.
The Border Patrol released 50 migrants on Tuesday rather than turn them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for detention. Another 200 will have been released Wednesday, an official at Customs and Border Protection told NPR.
The move is another apparent return by the government to the practice President Trump has called "catch and release" when he was a presidential candidate. Some migrant advocates say the release appears timed to bolster the administration's claims of a crisis at the border.
