Trump has aggressively publicized the arrests of more than 8,000 immigrants with the promise that those detained would be part of a historic mass deportation. But some have already been released back into the United States on a monitoring program, according to NBC News.
Since he took office, President Donald Trump and his allies have promoted immigration operations in cities like Chicago and New York, where agents across federal agencies were called in to increase the number of arrests.
But arresting more people inside the United States on allegations of immigration violations means they need to be held somewhere. And significant space constraints in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities — and federal court orders forbidding indefinite detention — have forced the agency to release some of those arrested in the roundups rather than hold them until deportation.
Isn’t that what President Biden did? You mean he had good reasons for doing so? You don’t say!
In a statement to NBC News, an ICE spokesperson acknowledged federal court cases limit ICE from detaining people indefinitely if their countries refuse to take them back, which can lead ICE to release them.
