House GOP Members Demand Explanation From DHS Over Immigrants Released With No Court Dates

Border Patrol agents apprehend about two dozen illegal immigrants in Penitas, Texas, on March 11, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Fourteen Republican congressmembers are demanding an explanation over “troubling reports” that illegal immigrants are being released into the United States with no court dates.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) wrote on Tuesday to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, that the lawmakers are “seeking answers to recent troubling reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is releasing aliens who entered the country illegally without the aliens being given Notices to Appear (NTA.)”

“Despite your repeated claims that ’the border is secure,' these reports raise serious questions about DHS’s commitment to faithfully enforcing the law,” reads the letter, which was obtained by Fox News.

The outlet reported that during the weekend, migrants were being processed and released without NTA in the Rio Grande Valley sector.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) testifies at a House hearing in front of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, in Washington on July 12, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The letter requests specific data from Mayorkas, such as whether aliens are claiming fear of persecution, how many of them are credible claims, how many have been released with and without NTA.

It comes as former President Donald Trump said  in a recent interview that illegal immigrants would be “coming up by the millions.”

He warned that the situation would deteriorate severely.

“It’s nothing compared to what’s going to be in a couple of months,” said Trump. “As I said before, you have some very bad hombres coming up and we’re taking them into our country and it’s insane.”

Former President Donald Trump embraces the American flag as he arrives on stage to address the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 28, 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

“They go into our country. We never find them again; they never come back, a very tiny percentage comes back,” Trump said, referring to the Biden administration’s return to the Obama-era “catch and release” policy in which asylum seekers are released into the interior of the country as they await a court hearing, often never to be seen again.