Agents are still doing medical screenings and criminal checks, but the decision means thousands of families will be released onto the street without first going through U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement
The decision to release families faster than they were wasn’t a surprise. A Border Patrol official, speaking to reporters Wednesday on condition of anonymity, said it would happen very soon in several of the agency’s busiest sectors: Rio Grande Valley, Texas; El Paso, Texas; Yuma, Arizona; San Diego; and perhaps Del Rio, Texas. All five were mentioned in Hudson’s e-mail. Some sectors were not part of the change, including Tucson, Arizona and El Centro, California.
“The volume of ‘vulnerable populations’ is unsustainable. Our system has been able to cope with high numbers in the past, but the composition of today’s flows makes them virtually unmanageable,” she wrote. “The sad reality is that we now have a virtual open border for any migrant who crosses with a minor, and our border security enforcement has been reduced to a mere speed bump for migrants on their path to long-term occupancy in the United States,” he said, adding border officers are being asked to perform an impossible task with no help from Congress.And along the border, officials were working to manage the families that had been suddenly released.
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