Customs and Border Protection authorities are reportedly set to release migrants who crossed into the country illegally into the United States without a court date.
The move, which would focus on illegal immigrants in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, would send individuals into U.S. cities without first obtaining a Notice to Appear, according to Fox News, which cited a senior CBP source. The onus on securing a court date would fall on the migrants themselves, and the situation has purportedly “become so dire that BP [Border Patrol] has no choice but to release people nearly immediately after apprehension because there is no space to hold people even to do necessary NTA paperwork,” the official said.
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