Migrants released with no immigration court date
February 10, 2023
According to nbcnews.com, nearly 600,000 migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border since March 2021 have been released into the U.S. with no charges and no immigration court date. Thousands of migrants also stopped using the program which was supposed to track them. Migrants across the country are now faced with legal limbo because they have no court date to determine whether they can legally stay in the country. Many are unable to work and do not realize they are coming up on their one-year eligibility deadline to apply for asylum. It was first reported that border agents in Rio Grande Valley were instructed to begin releasing migrants without court dates in March 2021, due to border processing centers becoming overcrowded and unable to quickly process children arriving unaccompanied.
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