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Trump's ICE frees hundreds of immigrants under "catch and release"

During his campaign Trump repeatedly criticized the Biden administration's use of "catch and release," and last month he set plans to end the practice.

*But for now it remains part of Trump's immigration enforcement strategy, as he pushes agents to round up immigrants for mass deportations at a time when detention facilities are nearly full.
*Under "catch and release," nonviolent undocumented immigrants who've been arrested by U.S. agents are freed after agreeing to return for their cases to be heard by an immigration court.
*The immigrants usually are given wristbands or ankle monitors, or are told to check in by telephone, to allow authorities to keep track of them until their court dates.

Zoom in: The released immigrants make up less than 6% of the roughly 8,000 undocumented people arrested since Jan. 21, Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, said in an emailed statement to Axios.

*"They do not have final deportation orders and are likely contesting their immigration status," she said.
McLaughlin said several factors can determine whether an arrested immigrant is released. They include a lack of detention space for women detainees, whether a detainee is likely to be deported anytime soon, and humanitarian considerations.

*Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been arresting a "significant number" of "criminal" immigrants who "require greater detention capacity," McLaughlin said.

*She added that ICE is looking to Congress for more funding to expand partnerships with local law enforcement and is working to review case files more quickly to deport those with "executable final orders of removal."

axios.com - Trump immigration catch release