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Reports the Biden administration is considering reinstating migrant family detention at the southern border sparked outrage from immigration activists, but former Trump administration officials are skeptical about how useful such policy initiatives from the Biden administration would be if implemented.
“It’s just 180 degrees from what their strategy has been. Since day one, their strategy has been the antithesis of detention,” former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan told Fox News Digital. “They view that as inhumane and not something that they support. So the fact that there’s talk about detaining families again, I’m very skeptical.”
Multiple outlets reported Monday that the administration is considering reviving the detention of migrant families who cross the border illegally.
Such a move would mark a significant reversal for the administration, which ended the practice in 2021 and instead released migrant family units into the U.S. interior with notices to appear in court or report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.
BIDEN ADMIN WEIGHS REVIVAL OF POLICY TO DETAIN MIGRANT FAMILIES AMID SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS: REPORTS
Venezuelan asylum seekers leave an immigrants information center in Manhattan Oct. 9, 2022, in New York City. (Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty Images)
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement that “no decisions have been made as we prepare for the Title 42 public health order to lift.”
The spokesperson was referring to the May 11 halt to Title 42, a Trump-era order enacted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the southern border for public health reasons. Officials have predicted an additional surge at the border when the order is lifted, and the administration has unveiled a number of measures to counteract such a shift.
The report sparked fury from immigration activists and some Democrats who were appalled at the…
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