The Biden administration will reportedly send court documents this week to 78,000 migrants who crossed into the country illegally this year but who were not processed for deportation at the country’s southern border.
But the migrants — who are only a relative handful of the more than 1.7 million who have surged into the country over the last 12 months — are not likely to face deportation for quite some time, as federal immigration courts continue to slowly work through a backlog of more than 1.4 million pending cases.
Nevertheless, according to CBS News, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plan, known as “Operation Horizon,” was launched Monday and aims to enter tens of thousands of migrants who only received ad hoc processing at the border into official deportation proceedings.
