According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol is applying a legal process known as Expedited Removal on a broad scale along the southwest border. The agency is now returning migrants to Mexico soon after apprehension. The source told Breitbart Texas, “’Catch and Release’ is over, it’s ‘Catch and Return now.’”
According to the source, within the Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol, where migrants from hundreds of countries flooded the Organ Pipe National Monument area daily and were quickly released by the Biden administration, the source says migrants are now processed for Expedited Removal and sent back into Mexico or their home country immediately.
According to the source, the Trump administration has instructed agents to apply a firmer consequence if the migrant returns using federal criminal statutes that apply to migrants who return to the United States after a formal removal. The limitations of using Expedited Removal authority were previously restricted to migrants within 100 miles of the southern border and 14 days of illegal entry.
The source says the instructions to Border Patrol agents on the law’s application now allow for Expedited Removal anywhere a migrant is found within the United States within two years of entry. Instructions were disseminated to all Border Patrol stations to cease the release of any migrant into the United States based on recognizance except under exigent circumstances and only when approved at the agency’s highest level in Washington, D.C.
The source told Breitbart Texas that the Mexican government has recently been accepting the return of nationals from other countries, including Chinese nationals. “We expected changes to come quickly, but the pace is quicker than we expected in a number of policy areas,” the source emphasized. […]
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