REVEALED: The seven hotels near the border that will be taken over by ICE, turned into casas and will house 1,200 migrants released from custody as part of an $86.9 million government contract
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking over seven hotels and starting Friday will start housing some migrant families
A first wave of 600 migrants will head to four properties starting Friday
Another 600 migrants are slated to move into three additional properties starting at the end of the month, according to the Washington Examiner
ICE has nicknamed each of the hotels a different casa, which is Spanish for house
The seven hotels are from large American chains with some boasting swimming pools on the grounds
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The release quoted Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino of the Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector, but Customs and Border Protection, which oversees agents, said it went out without proper authorization.
“The news release in question was not properly reviewed and contained certain disclosure and policy information related to national security that required CBP to remove it from our website,” CBP said.
A copy of the release is still available on the Internet Archive web page.
The deletion sparked questions on Capitol Hill.
“Why did you take down your previously public tweet & press release announcing that two people on the terror watch list were apprehended exploiting President Biden’s open border policies?” demanded the Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee.