Border Patrol agents expelling undocumented migrants upon apprehension
Agents have been given the discretion to expel people they apprehend without taking them to detention facilities.
Individuals are no longer being held in detention areas, said Aaron Heitke, Chief Patrol Agent in San Diego.
Quick interviews will be fully conducted in the field, basic biographic scans as well and individuals will be brought back to the border and expelled to the country they came from.
According to Heitke, these measures have been implemented to curve the spread of Covid-19