The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report exposing the agency's inability to locate more than 177,000 undocumented immigrants who were released into the country.
According to the document released Monday by the federal watchdog group, DHS has a "limited ability to accurately and effectively track the addresses of migrants" who were released into the country.
DHS explained that before releasing each migrant, their address must be registered so that they can be located later in case of necessary arrest or deportation of those considered a potential threat to national security.
However, after 981,671 records were reviewed, they found more than 177,000 missing, invalid or illegitimate addresses.
"U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) cannot always obtain and does not always record migrant addresses, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not always validate migrant addresses prior to migrant release into the United States," says the document that highlights that without that information it is possible that DHS will not be able to locate migrants who are released in the country.
New Report: "DHS Does Not Have Assurance That All Migrants Can be Located Once Released into the United States (REDACTED)" https://t.co/tksTnkw2Pn
— DHS Office of Inspector General (@DHSOIG) September 11, 2023
It should be noted that the review only dealt with migrants who were registered from March 2021 to August 2022. However, the number of people entering the country continues to increase on a daily basis, which is likely to worsen this situation.
A Border Patrol agent told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the volume of migrants is so high that agents can't keep up with checking the validity of each address.
" The numbers are astronomical at this point," he said.
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Encounters of undocumented immigrants with Customs and Border Protection have already increased by at least 300% since 2020. In fact, this year alone there have been more than 2 million encounters.
