President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued Notices to Appear (NTAs) in federal immigration court to more than 820,000 border crossers who are now in the United States, new data reveal.
The data, compiled by the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, give a glimpse into the Biden administration’s expansive Catch and Release network where border crossers and illegal aliens are briefly detained before being released into the U.S. interior, often with NTAs before a federal immigration judge years in the future.
From January 1 through July 31, Biden’s DHS issued more than 820,000 NTAs to border crossers who had already been released into the U.S. interior.
The total number of NTAs issued by the DHS, though, does not indicate the total number of border crossers and illegal aliens released into American communities over this period. That figure is estimated to be upward of two million.
Since the start of the…