Illegal aliens increasingly turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents, rather than try to evade them as they did in the past. Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, explains the reason why:
“[DHS] Secretary Mayorkas’ policies encourage lawbreaking to such a degree that record numbers of illegal aliens are actually turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents, expecting to be released, rather than trying to escape across the the border uncaught.”
Chief Patrol Agent Jason Owens told the committee that illegal aliens are “predominantly turning themselves in.” He added that “[F]or the majority of my career, I was chasing people that had crossed the border illegally. The phenomenon of having people turn themselves in, it’s happened, but not at the levels that I have been seeing in the last couple years.”
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