Florida judge blocks Biden's new catch and release policy for illegal migrants

The Biden administration has a new policy on catch and release for illegal aliens due to the expiration of Title 42. In a memo released on Wednesday, just hours before Title 42 expired, Border Patrol agents were authorized to use Biden’s parole policy to catch and release illegal aliens caught up in the border surge that Title 42 is expected to produce. The chief of the Border Patrol said that the numbers are so high that the agency cannot be expected to process them correctly.
 

Chief Raul Ortiz, in a memo Wednesday, said parole will be allowed if the Border Patrol is averaging more than 7,000 arrests a day. The agency is well above that level already, and the numbers will probably go even higher by Friday, when the government will lose its Title 42 power to expel some migrants.

“Because BP personnel and resources are finite, BP must consider whether processing personnel and resources are necessary to process other noncitizens in BP custody or accomplish enforcement actions that are immediately critical to border security for the greater public benefit,” Chief Ortiz wrote. “If so, the individual may be considered for Parole with Conditions.”

That is what Border Patrol looks like when it throws its hands up in the air and surrenders to the sheer number of migrants crossing the border illegally. To be clear, I am not blaming the Border Patrol officials who are taking this step.