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Exclusive: In anticipation of a surge at the border when Title 42 officially ends, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) internal guidance memos from May release illegal immigrants into the United States, Border Patrol chiefs say said to clear the border patrol for. — unprecedented in the 31 years he’s been with his agency.
Ortiz made the comments under oath during a recorded July 28 deposition first obtained by Fox News Digital. Department of Homeland Security and other border agencies.
Ortiz is seen on video answering a series of questions regarding Internal Border Patrol Emergency Memo “Document 3,” entitled “Release of Non-Citizens from U.S. Border Patrol Detention,” signed by the Director of Border Patrol on May 19, 2022. increase. The emergency memo predicts that Border Patrol will be unable to process and transport large numbers of illegal aliens entering the United States across the southern border. Title 42 Public Health Order, It is now deadlocked in court, but has been abolished.
“This guidance is for situations where the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)/Enforced Removal Operations (ERO) cannot accept custody of a noncitizen due to lack of bed space to avoid overcrowding, Non-citizens must be released directly from USBP custody, “too long detention time,” the May 19 memo said.
A counselor at the Florida Attorney General’s office asked Ortiz to explain the memo, to which Ortiz replied:
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The Florida attorney continued, “Have you seen any documents in your 31 years of Border Patrol experience? Or have you seen notes like Exhibit 3 before?” I asked
Ortiz replied, “No.”
“Would you agree that Exhibit 3 deals with the possible withdrawal of Title 42?”
“Yes,” Ortiz replied.
“If ICE is unwilling or unwilling to accept alien transfers, does this memo allow the sector to release aliens into the United States?”
Ortiz replied, “It allows them to be released into the community where they were arrested.”
“And does Exhibit 3 authorize the release of aliens who would otherwise not be admitted to the United States?” the attorney continued.
Ortiz answered affirmatively, “Yes.”
CBP previously told Fox News Digital:
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Florida’s Attorney General has accused the Biden administration of being the only solution to rising mass immigration after Title 42 ends.
Moody told Fox News Digital: A public safety-minded Attorney General would have abolished Title 42 and Biden would have released thousands of additional immigrants into the country, damn it!”
The Department of Homeland Security said it had developed a plan for the end of Title 42, but admitted that the surge would “substantially strain” resources at the border.
“Once the Title 42 public health order is lifted, we expect immigration levels to increase as smugglers seek to exploit vulnerable immigrants for profit,” said DHS Director Alejandro Mallorcas. , said in a memo outlining the agency’s “Southwestern Border Security Plan.” and prepare” from April.
The memo outlines what is called a “Government-wide Plan to Prepare for and Manage Increased Non-Citizen Encounters at the Southwest Border.”
More than two million migrants were encountered at the southern border in the year ending September 30.
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Also during the deposition, Ortiz was asked, “What is a broken arrow?”
He replied: However, we also recognize that there will be some challenges in some places. ”
During the same deposit, Ortiz said President Biden’s border policy It is responsible for the unprecedented surge at the border and the liberation of hundreds of thousands of people into the country with “no impact” on illegal immigration entering the United States.