The Biden administration’s top border official declined to confirm that migrants who come over the southern border illegally are being vetted by federal law enforcement before being released into the United States.
In exchanges with Republican congressmen at a House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday morning, acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy Miller stopped short of quelling lawmakers’ concerns that federal police were not just taking the migrants’ word on their identities before letting them go.
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