US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Plans to Release Thousands of Illegal Aliens

The plan would release more than 16,000 illegal aliens into the country.

After record numbers of illegal aliens have flooded into the United States, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is working on plans to release thousands of illegal aliens from detention centers into the country. 

According to a report from The Washington Post, ICE is planning to mass release more than 16,000 illegal aliens into the country after Senate Republicans and a handful of Democrats rejected a border measure supported by the Biden administration. The measure would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall but did not address Republicans’ concerns over the border crisis. 

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) posted to X saying that Senate Republicans were right in rejecting the legislation.

“Senate Republicans did the right thing by rejecting supplemental national security legislation that would not actually secure the border. I declared it would be dead on arrival in the House, and credit Senate Republicans for ensuring it was never sent over,” wrote Johnson. “Let me be clear, as I have been all along: National security begins by securing our own border. The House, and the American people, insist upon it.”

The legislation opposed by Republican lawmakers would have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding for ICE enforcement operations. After it was voted down, ICE officials began to circulate an internal proposal to deal with its budget shortfall by reducing detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000.