Report: DHS eyes ordering unlawful immigrants to remain in Texas

The Biden administration is pondering a brand new coverage that might order unauthorized immigrants to remain in Texas after they arrive, stopping them from spreading all through the nation, in line with a brand new report Thursday.

The objective is to have the migrants be in a greater place for eventual deportation, the Los Angeles Times reported. It would additionally stop the large surge of migrants that’s overwhelmed liberal-led cities throughout the nation.

But it will additionally seemingly draw howls of protest from each side of the immigration debate.

Immigrant-rights activists seemingly would object to limiting migrants’ freedom of motion. Meanwhile, Texas and its allies amongst conservatives and border-state officers have stated the state already has borne the brunt of an immigrant surge that President Biden has invited.

The Los Angeles Times dubbed the coverage “remain-in-Texas,” harkening again to the Trump administration’s profitable however controversial “Remain in Mexico” coverage.

The paper, citing unnamed sources, stated the plan would depend on GPS monitoring units assigned to migrants to make sure they keep close to the border.

In order to make a lot of a dent, although, Homeland Security must dramatically enhance its use of monitoring.

As of the tip of August the division had simply 9,288 migrants fitted with ankle bracelets and 100 with GPS-tracking watches. That is roughly equal to the quantity of unauthorized migrants which can be encountered coming into the nation each two days.

Each GPS bracelet prices the federal government practically $3 a day. The watches price $4.50 a day.

The border has repeatedly bedeviled the Biden administration.

When the numbers first began to rise early in 2021, the president stated it was seasonal and predicted the numbers would quickly tumble. Instead, they bought worse.

Earlier this 12 months, after Homeland Security deployed one other set of insurance policies designed to encourage unlawful immigrants to schedule their arrivals, the numbers shifted and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took a victory lap.