For four years Americans were told the border could not be secured without a new law from Congress. Jenny Beth Martin asks Rosemary Jenks of the Immigration Accountability Project, who watches the monthly numbers, what actually changed. Under the Biden administration, illegal crossings ran 10,000 to 12,000 people a day, every day, and virtually everyone apprehended was released into the country. Under President Trump the average is about 250 a day, and only a tiny fraction come in at all.
Jenny Beth then does something she makes a point of doing on air: she corrects her own talking point. Jenks had messaged her that "zero releases" is not literally true, and Jenks explains why. The law still requires the Border Patrol to hand unaccompanied minors to Health and Human Services, and when ICE releases someone it is not counted as a Border Patrol release. Catch and release, the practice of releasing people who turned themselves in with a bus ticket, is over. Jenny Beth adds a number she pulled up during the show: almost 15,000 American cities have fewer people than were released in a single day under Biden.
Then the question that matters for November: how much of this was already law? Jenks' answer is all of it. Remain in Mexico was always allowed; catch and release and the Biden parole programs never were. It is absurd, she says, to claim the border cannot be secured without new legislation, and that is exactly why a law like Rep. Chip Roy's Permanent Trump Secure Border Act is needed: to require the next administration to do what this one did.
Guest: Rosemary Jenks, co-founder and policy director of the Immigration Accountability Project, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee in September on what Congress must do to make the Trump border policies permanent.
In this segment:
• 10,000 to 12,000 a day under Biden; about 250 a day now
• Virtually everyone caught under Biden was released into the country
• Why you see the difference on your TV before you see it in your town
• Jenny Beth corrects her own talking point on "zero releases"
• The unaccompanied-minor handoff to HHS, and why catch and release is still over
• Almost 15,000 American cities are smaller than one day of Biden's releases
• Everything President Trump did was within existing law
• Why the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act is still needed
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00:00 — What changed at the border? The question
00:21 — 10,000 to 12,000 a day under Biden; 250 a day now
00:56 — Under Biden, virtually all of them were released
01:18 — Why you do not see it in daily life yet, but you see it on your TV
02:11 — Historic, and only lasting if Republicans keep Congress
02:44 — Jenny Beth corrects the record: 15,000 cities smaller than one day's releases
03:57 — Is "zero releases" true? Unaccompanied minors and the HHS handoff
04:55 — Catch and release is over
05:32 — Biden said he needed a new law. The Gang of Eight said it in 2013
06:10 — Everything Trump did was within existing law; Remain in Mexico
06:53 — Absurd to claim the border cannot be secured without new legislation
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