- Immigration detention is civil and for the purpose of ensuring appearance of aliens at removal proceedings, and for the actual removal itself.
- Congress recognizes both qualitative and quantitative problems associated with illegal immigration in the processes and detention mechanisms it directs.
- Claims of asylum and fear of return are a major loophole that result in release of aliens who then disappear.
- Lack of detention space to hold aliens also contributes to the collapse of immigration and border controls, resulting in a system of “catch-and-release” that encourages more aliens to attempt to enter illegally or to overstay their visas.
- Immigration and border security controls are at a crisis point, due to dismaying case backlogs currently clogging the immigration courts (more than 750,000 cases) and the number of fugitives (900,000) under orders of removal who are loose on the streets of the United States.
- Migrant caravans may force both legislators and the administration to take effective remedial action to close legal loopholes and to declare a mass immigration emergency to ensure continued control of our external border(s). Here.
