A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan agency that is the government’s primary oversight body, examined ad hoc practices deployed by the Biden administration to contend with record numbers of border-crossers in U.S. custody.
the nonpartisan congressional agency that is the government’s primary oversight body, examined some of the ad hoc practices deployed by the Biden administration to contend with record numbers of border-crossers in U.S. custody.
The GAO found the Border Patrol issued nearly 94,000 Notice to Report documents to migrant family members between March 2021 and September 2021, primarily in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. For the first three months of the new process, about 60 percent of the address info gathered by U.S. agents was often incomplete or invalid, the report said.“For example, officials stated that Border Patrol sometimes recorded the onward destination state but not a street or city,” it said.
“The administration has created a new process at the border and it’s important to understand how it’s working,” Lankford said, in an interview. “Basically they had a backlog at the border and they just moved it into the interior of the country.”
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