Catch & Release Illegal says Judge

Biden Administration’s ‘Catch and Release’ Border Policy Struck Down by US Judge

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, a Republican, sued the government in 2021 over the policy

The federal government’s program of releasing many illegal immigrants rather than holding them until their cases are resolved violates federal law, a U.S. judge ruled on March 8.

“The evidence establishes that Defendants have effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speedbump for aliens flooding into the country,” U.S. District Judge Judge T. Kent Wetherell said in the ruling.

Wetherell struck down Alternatives to Detention, a program through which President Joe Biden’s administration has released more than one million aliens into the U.S. interior.

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