About 30,000 people who illegally entered the United States via Mexico have been released by federal officials into the country since January amid a surge of people being held in detention centers, according to a former Border Patrol chief.
Mark Morgan, the former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under former President Donald Trump, told the Washington Examiner that Border Patrol officials have been directly releasing people and were not transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
