Border Patrol says detention centers are full -- and starts releasing migrants

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

MCALLEN, Texas - The Border Patrol released 50 recently apprehended migrants here Tuesday, the first of several hundred border-crossers who officials say will soon be freed because there is no room to hold them.

Normally, the Border Patrol would transfer the migrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be "processed" and in many cases placed in detention facilities. But officials said that both agencies have run out of space due to a recent influx of Central American families.
Immigrant advocates suggested the release was intended to create chaos at the border and further President Donald Trump's argument that there is a national emergency there.

"Why do this now? It doesn't make sense," said Zenen Jaimes Perez, advocacy director for the Texas Civil Rights Project, which sent lawyers to the McAllen bus station to assist the migrants. "This is not something they've done before."

He pointed out that the federal government has dealt with bigger influxes of migrants in the recent past.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/border-patrol-says-detention-centers-are-full--and-starts-releasing-migrants/ar-BBV0mR0?li=BBnbcA1

So Trump can manufacture a crisis for his wall.

[Historic NY]

1. And the point in detaining them in the first place becomes moot.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Didn't we basically use to just 'let them go', enter the US and say 'you're due in court' prior

to Trump's draconian policies?

I mean, once we established they didn't have criminal records?

Assuming I'm correct on this, I'm not sure this is the best way for advocates to address the issue:

"Immigrant advocates suggested the release was intended to create chaos at the border and further President Donald Trump's argument that there is a national emergency there."

I'd think something more along the lines 'GOOD START! There's really no reason to not return to the previous (many years of) policy of NOT incarcerating asylum seekers and instead releasing them, and requiring US Immigration Court appearances in the near future' would be a better message, but ... maybe I just don't know how things used to work.