{"id":816470,"date":"2021-09-26T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=816470"},"modified":"2021-09-26T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T14:44:08","slug":"dhs-secretary-says-12k-illegal-migrants-released-in-u-s-in-recent-weeks-could-be-even-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-secretary-says-12k-illegal-migrants-released-in-u-s-in-recent-weeks-could-be-even-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Secretary Says 12K Illegal Migrants Released In U.S. In Recent Weeks: \u2018Could Be Even Higher\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdhs-secretary-says-12k-illegal-migrants-released-in-u-s-in-recent-weeks-could-be-even-higher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=816470&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Alejandro-Mayorkas.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that as many as 12,000 illegal migrants have been released into the U.S. after crossing into the country near Del Rio, Texas, in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpJew2\/status\/1442119361842515969\">appeared<\/a> on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d and told host Chris Wallace that about 10,000 to 12,000 illegal migrants have been released and the number \u201ccould be even higher.\u201d About 5,000 migrants from the Del Rio border camp are still going through processing.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p><em>Wallace: Of the 17,400 that weren\u2019t deported back or didn\u2019t return on their own to Mexico, how many of them were released into the U.S.?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mayorkas: Well, they\u2019re released on conditions, and approximately I think it\u2019s about 10,000 or so, 12,000.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CW: Have been released?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>AM: Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CW: And of the 5,000 that are still in process?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>AM: We will make determinations whether they will be returned to Haiti based on our public health and public interest authorities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mayorkas added that the number of migrants released into the U.S. could increase. \u201cIt could be even higher. The number that are returned could be even higher. What we do is we follow the law as Congress has passed it,\u201d Mayorkas said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mayorkas-says-as-many-as-12k-out-of-17k-migrants-have-been-released-into-u-s-and-it-could-be-higher-as-dhs\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A holding pen hastily put together by U.S. Border Patrol officials underneath a bridge near Del Rio, Texas, was mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/del-rio-migrant-camp-nearly-cleared-out-after-housing-around-15000-illegal-immigrants\">cleared<\/a> out by Saturday. The area, which was previously covered in migrant tents and held at its peak roughly 15,000 people, had been mostly bulldozed. About 3,000 migrants were left.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Haitian immigrants flooded across the border near Del Rio in September, after a social media post claimed that the U.S. border near the Texas city of 35,000 was open. The surge of migrants appeared to catch the Biden administration off-guard. As the Border Patrol relocated agents to the area, Texas officials blasted the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>During a Tuesday press conference, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/abbott-taking-unprecedented-action-on-border-posting-miles-of-texas-state-vehicles-to-form-steel-barrier\">ripped<\/a> the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the border and outlined some actions he had been forced to take to combat the duel illegal immigration and humanitarian crises that were building in Del Rio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing [the Biden administration has] shown is an incapability of dealing with this crisis, candidly, in a way where they pretend it doesn\u2019t even exist,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re here to tell you, it exists, it is total chaos, and the Biden administration \u2014 they need to up their game, big time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have an administration that has abandoned any pretense of securing the border and securing our sovereignty, you see the onrush,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott said that he had taken \u201cunprecedented\u201d action to stop the flow of illegal migration, ordering Texas law enforcement to park vehicles along the border for miles to construct a \u201csteel barrier\u201d blocking illegal immigrants from entering the state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democratic-del-rio-mayor-slams-biden-harris-over-border-crisis-why-arent-you-here\">Democratic Del Rio Mayor Slams Biden, Harris Over Border Crisis: \u2018Why Aren\u2019t You Here?\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that as many as 12,000 illegal migrants have been released into the U.S. after crossing into the country near Del Rio, Texas, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}