An internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that nearly 200,000 illegal aliens were released from custody after giving false addresses.
The audit by the DHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that Border Patrol agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers did not always record and verify the addresses given by illegal aliens prior to their release, only discovering the discrepancies after the illegals had left custody. The 177,000 invalid addresses were found during a review of 981,671 illegal alien records from March of 2021 to August of 2022; of those 177,000, at least 54,000 addresses were simply left blank.
During that same year-and-a-half time period, Border Patrol gave over 430,000 illegals a Notice to Appear (NTA) prior to their release, ordering them to appear before an immigration judge for further scrutiny of their individual case. Another 95,000 illegals were released under prosecutorial discretion, and over 318,000 were released under humanitarian parole. This amounts to an average of 60,000 releases per month.