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Under Biden if you climbed over the border wall illegally, waited to be picked up by border control, and then falsely claimed asylum, you'd be assigned a court

Under Biden if you climbed over the border wall illegally, waited to be picked up by border control, and then falsely claimed asylum, you'd be assigned a court date, and then disappear into the country. They'd almost always miss their court date and never be heard from again. Millions of people were entering the country per year in this manner. Yes there were many systems as you mention, but all those systems amounted for naught when the end result is the person still entered and remained in the country illegally.

ModernMech 1y ago
But that's not really "basically an open border" though is it? Can you quantify "almost always"? Because here are some data I found: - 83% of nondetained immigrants with completed or pending removal cases attended all of their hearings. - 96% of nondetained immigrants represented by a lawyer attended all of their hearings. - 15% of those who were ordered deported because they did not appear in court successfully reopened their cases and had their removal orders rescinded. In some years, as many as 20% of all orders of removal for missing court were later overturned. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/11-years-government-data-reveal-immigrants-do-show-court https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/11-years-gov... This would seem to indicate the opposite, that they almost always attend the court date. So while it's not perfect, it's clearly not true that the boarder was "basically open" under Biden.