Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy Miller stopped short of quelling lawmakers' concerns during a House hearing.
who come over the southern border illegally are being vetted by federal law enforcement before being released into the United States.Commissioner Troy Miller stopped short of quelling lawmakers’ concerns that federal police were not just taking the migrants’ word on their identities before letting them go.
Rep. John Rutherford fired back at Miller and pointed to how a man in his Jacksonville, Florida, district wasby a 24-year-old Honduran illegal immigrant who lied and claimed to be 17 years old when he crossed the border in 2021 yet was released into the country despite allegedly being vetted by Border Patrol.
“When they enter in between the ports of entry … we will do our complete suite of checks against law enforcement databases, intelligence databases, our databases, and ultimately, it is our goal to remove individuals quickly that don’t have an asylum claim,” he said. Rutherford asked why the Department of Homeland Security budget and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in particular, had not increased the number of beds available to detain illegal immigrants coming over the border with no identification and whose identity cannot be verified. Miller said he could not speak for the DHS or ICE.
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