States vs. Biden’s Prison-to-Streets Pipeline for Illegal Immigrant Convicts

A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle sits next to a border wall in the El Paso Sector along the U.S.–Mexico border between New Mexico and Chihuahua state, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on Dec. 9, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

The Biden administration has allowed a more than eleven-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrant offenders let out of Texas prisons and into the general U.S. population, despite federal immigration law requiring ICE to take convicts into custody after serving their time, usually in advance of deportation.

The disclosure emerges from state-initiated litigation that is beginning to shed light on what critics call the administration’s secretive and lenient handling of immigrants beginning last year—treatment that is imperiling public safety, alarmed state authorities say.