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Joe Biden's executive orders meant"for the first time in American history we have a president who will not detain the people who enter this country illegally."Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s claim ignores detentions and deportations under Joe Biden and migrant releases under previous presidents, immigration experts said.
PolitiFact contacted Rubio’s office to ask which executive orders he was referring to but received no reply. We found a"Within days of his inauguration, President Biden placed a 100-day moratorium on deportations, halted construction of the border wall, dismantled Remain in Mexico and ended the Asylum Cooperative Agreements," Rubio wrote. Rubio also noted that in 2022, Biden ended the use of Title 42, a pandemic-era policy that permitted rapid expulsions.
"As of February, had approximately 39,000 migrants in detention nationwide," said Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, an associate policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. The program was stopped and restarted several times because of court decisions until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2022 that it could be terminated. The program, which formally ended in October 2022, had enrolled 81,000 migrants."Remain in Mexico was barely operational in January 2021 and Biden returned vastly more people to Mexico using Title 42 than were removed under Remain in Mexico," said David Bier, a Cato Institute immigration expert.
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