President Donald Trump has ordered the use of court dates and notices to appear (NTA) for illegal immigrants when they are taken into custody by Border Patrol to be halted. This comes as he has announced the end to catch-and-release policies implemented by former President Joe Biden
According to NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley, direction for Border Patrol went out on Monday night stating that they would be “halting the use of ‘NTAs’ (court dates) while reverting to the previous pursuit and use of force policy.”
Some of those policies include, according to Bradley, “No alien will be released from custody on an NTA/OR or otherwise without approval from Deputy Chief,” as well as the policy that the government will “no longer refer to aliens as migrants, noncitizens, etc. The legal term is alien and as law enforcement we will use the legal term.”
In addition to these new border and immigration policies, Trump ended the function of the CBP One application on Monday after he took office. The app has been used by immigrants traveling to the United States to set up asylum appointments at the border, whether or not their claims to asylum were legitimate.
What happened under Biden is that those who set appointments were usually released into the United States with a “notice to appear” or a date for immigration court, sometimes years later down the line. The action from Trump ending those policies sets in motion more strict and secure border policies and will disincentivize people from coming to the border en masse.
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