The Biden administration is seeking to take much harsher steps to stop illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to new reports met with blowback from the Department of Homeland Security.
Faced with the highest number of noncitizens encountered at the nation’s borders in December 2022 — more than 300,000 people — the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may fly immigrants apprehended at the border to Mexico, regardless of which country they traveled from, according to the Washington Post and CNN.
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The mass deportation deliberations come as House Republicans weigh opening an impeachment inquiry into DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for how he has handled the border crisis over the past 24 months since President Joe Biden took office.
A DHS spokeswoman denied the U.S. is seeking a deal with Mexico to allow the mass deportation flights.
“Reports that we are considering mass deportations of non-Mexicans to Mexico are false,” said DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron in a Twitter post Thursday. “We’re continuing to work closely with govt of Mexico to implement our successful border enforcement plan which has already resulted in lowest encounter numbers between ports of entry in 2yrs.”
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Any such flights would begin at the end of Title 42, a public health policy put in effect at the start of the pandemic and has allowed U.S. border officials to send illegal immigrants back across the border immediately.
In December 2022, the Biden administration expelled 20% of illegal immigrants at the southern border under Title 42. In December 2020, during former President Donald Trump’s final full month in office, DHS expelled 80% of illegal immigrants under Title 42 at the southern border.
