Thanks to Obama’s “catch and release” policy, thousands and thousand of illegals crossed our border and were released.  We now have a backlog of deportation cases in the courts. President Trump and the DOJ recognize this and are taking steps to speed up deportations. Thank goodness!

ED HENRY: “Breaking tonight, a Justice Department official has just confirmed to Fox News they are now, within the Trump administration, instituting quotas for federal immigration judges to try and speed up deportations of illegal immigrants out of this country.

It comes after the union for these judges had a prohibition in place that did not allow these quotas. The quotas have now been lifted, officials saying, quote, “These performance metrics, which were agreed to by the immigration judge union that is now condemning them, are designed to increase productivity and efficiency in the system without compromising due process.”

This comes as you noted a caravan of 1100 hundred people fleeing South Central America is traveling through Mexico right now, some seeking political asylum there, while others are trying to make it to the U.S. We know it’s porous.”

WE REPORTED JUST LAST WEEK ON A PROPOSED BILL TO STOP “CATCH AND RELEASE”:

SENATOR INTRODUCES Bill That Would Stop “Catch and Release” of Illegals…Activists Call It “Cruel”

Thank you Senator Jim Inhofe for introducing a bill that would stop “catch and release”. What most Americans don’t realize is that illegals cross the border and then are released…Yes, they are released and then given a court date for their hearing.  We count on these law breakers to come back for a court date.  It’s ridiculous but open border activists are already saying that it’s “cruel”. How is it cruel to enforce borders?

INHOFE PROPOSAL:

Instead of releasing illegal immigrants once they are caught trying to enter the country – and hope they show up to immigration court – Sen.  Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., proposes sending them back to their home country. That way, he said, the illegal immigrants don’t become “absorbed” in the U.S. after they fail to show up to court.

MOST ILLEGALS DO NOT SHOW UP FOR IMMIGRATION COURT:

Fox News reports:

A large number of illegal immigrants who are caught, then released, fail to show up to immigration court, he said. They end up staying in the county illegally, he said.

Following a tour with border agents in Brownsville, Texas, on Monday, Inhofe said he planned to introduce legislation in the next three weeks that would allow immigration agents to send those caught illegally crossing the border back home.

There have been a total of 136,201 apprehensions since October along the Southwest border with Mexico.

“This merely says if they’re caught in the country, send them back to their country while they wait for the court date,” he said.

President Trump signed an executive order last year to end “catch-and-release,” when illegal immigrants are detained and let go in the U.S. But his plan, to keep the immigrants detained until their court proceedings have ended, was stymied by a years-long backlog in immigration court and shortage of beds at detention centers.

But Inhofe said “catch and release” does not have to continue because of the bed shortage.

“The reason why 70 percent of [undocumented immigrants] don’t make their court date is because [the federal government doesn’t] make them stay in their country,” he said. “And, obviously, if I were in that position, I’d be off someplace else too.”

A report released last year by the Center for Immigration Studies said about 46,000 illegal immigrants a year who are detained after illegally crossing the border do not appear in court and “disappear” in the county.

A report released last year by the Center for Immigration Studies said about 46,000 illegal immigrants a year who are caught trying to cross the borer do not appear in court and “disappear” in the county.

“Deportation orders for failure to appear are the largest group of orders issued by immigration courts outside detention facilities,” said the report, written by Mark Metcalf, a former immigration judge in Miami.

“INHUMANE”?

But his proposal has come under fire from immigration groups who call it inhumane and logistically impossible.

Aida Montanaro-Flores, an immigration attorney in Brownsville, said it would be a financial burden to send the immigrants back to their country and then require them to make a trip back for a court hearing.

“Are they going to be allowed a travel permit? Will the government pay for their travel to come back to the country and attend their court dates?” Montanaro-Flores asked. “What guarantees do we have that they they’ll be allowed to come back for their court date?”

Other immigration groups said the idea was outright ridiculous.

“Have we really stooped this low? This suggestion is absurd, illogical and cruel – not to mention a waste of resources,” said Kica Matos, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Immigrant and Racial Justice at the Center for Community Change. “Republicans need to focus on making communities safer instead of continuing to tear families apart.”

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