Immigrants Arrested During Mass-Deportation Operation Are Back In the U.S.

Mass deportation immigrants have already been released back in the U.S.

Donald Trump’s administration’s mass deportation scheme resulted in a shortage of resources. The insufficiency of funding and the absence of space in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions are large-scale issues that forced ICE to release pre-detained immigrants.

NBC News reported yesterday that the individuals who have been released are kept within a monitoring program. ICE will keep them under observation with the use of trackers attached to their bodies, such as ankle monitors or wristbands.

Trump’s promise of the biggest deportation operation in American history has faced complications due to the fact that there isn’t any more funding or any more detention centers than there were before he took office.

With this large number of people already arrested, the shortage incapacitates the possibility of carrying on with the deportation, which is why ICE officials are working on the alternative of observing who they’ve arrested and afterward deciding whether to keep them apprehended or let go based on a judgment that consists of whether someone is deemed to be a threat to public safety or not.

Most of those who have not been convicted of serious crimes are released under a monitoring program. 

Homeland security correspondent for NBC News Julia Ainsley explained the complexity of the situation. She emphasized how complicated this whole process really is, and what is behind the large figures of people “deported” posted daily by ICE.

“It’s really antithetical to the very notion of these arrests and really underscores the fact that just because we see someone arrested and we see these large numbers posted every day by ICE, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is leading to a deportation because the process is complicated and they are short on funding,” she said. 

In a declaration to NBC, ICE recognized that the Federal Court restrained them from indefinite detention, and so, if immigrants are being held, and their countries refuse to take them back, that can lead to their release back into the U.S. 

With all that in mind, the 8,000 immigrant mass arrests since Trump’s inauguration appeared reckless and impetuous, at most achieving the suffering and separation of families.