Americans are seeing a definitive change from the previous practices of the Republican administration, BORDER KIDS.
A shift in detention patterns. Following President Biden's first month in office, the number of people arrested by ICE and booked into civil detention fell 62 percent In contrast, there was an increase of 55 percent in those arrested by the Border Patrol after the administration began allowing some asylum-seekers to enter the United States.
During the life of the MPP program, some 2,988 individuals as of the end of January 2021 had already been allowed to transfer their proceedings to non-MPP hearing locations within the country.
Identifying the number of people in detention who have a pending immigration court case is complicated by the fact that detention status is not always reliably recorded in Immigration Court CASE files. Further, unaccompanied children held in HHS facilities are not included in ICE figures but would be included in Court counts if they had pending cases there.
Faced with President POTUS's early popularity, the good news about vaccinations, and Americans' embrace of the #COVID relief bill Washington Republicans opposed, #Republicans are leaning in on the highly charged issue amid a spike in border crossings. They hope immigration can unite the party heading into next year's elections when control of Congress is at stake.
