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Kris Kobach: Catch and Release Can Be Instantly Ended without Congress

posted onApril 11, 2019
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Article snippet: As Breitbart News has chronicled, DHS has been releasing roughly 1,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States through the unofficial Catch and Release program. The process often entails federal immigration officials dropping illegal aliens off at bus stations, where they are then released from custody with the promise to return for their immigration hearings. The overwhelming majority of illegal aliens are never deported from the country once released into the interior. During an interview on Fox News, Kobach explained how the policy can be instantly ended by the creation of more detention space: Kobach said the plan would not only end Catch and Release, but also act as a deterrent for future border crossers and illegal aliens. “And we’ll get back in the home countries ‘Oh wait a minute, it’s not so easy just to disappear into America by making a bogus claim of asylum’ which more than 90 percent of them are actually not legitimate claims for asylum,” Kobach said. Kobach said he there is no incentive for Trump’s DHS to reinstate the “Zero Tolerance” policy which resulted in the temporary separation of child migrants from the adults with whom they arrived at the southern border. Keeping children with the adults they arrive in the U.S. with, Kobach said, is necessary to ensure that the unit is quickly processed and either granted asylum or deported, together. “We do not need to separate families, nor should we, because if we quickl... Link to the full article to read more

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