Nearly 20% of newly arrived illegal immigrants give bogus addresses to the Border Patrol when they are arrested, an inspector general reported Monday, making it nearly impossible to track them as they spread through the U.S. and confounding efforts to deport them later.
Agents said sometimes the migrants refuse to give an address, and other times they can’t decipher what the address is. Still other times the location is invalid — a church or business location — where they can never be tracked down.
Agents told the Homeland Security Office of Inspector General that they were too overwhelmed by the sheer size of the migrant surge to press for better addresses. Besides, they said, they are under orders to release migrants even if they give no address at all. The audit then looked at a subset of 981,671 releases and found 177,000 instances where the address given was bogus, or where no address was even recorded.
Investigators looked at 25,000 cases where no address was listed for a migrant and found that more than half of the time those migrants never even checked in with ICE at their destination.
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