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Title 8 is not always immediate expulsion. It was in fact the only processing prior to COVID in 2020. But it does include detention, release for hearings, and the various forms of repatriation.
Alright, so DHS historically seems to boot most noncitizens immediately. 2019 was apparently an enormous surge where they didn't keep up, and 2020 may have been a poor showing compared to other years...but DHS gets really defensive about this.
They're suggesting a repatriation rate of 119% despite a footnote acknowledging that the Title 42 expulsions had lots of repeat offenders. Regardless of how they count those, Title 42ers were explicitly included in the 519,000 total--meaning they definitely didn't get released into the country. That'd bring the percentage up to an even sillier 130%. I assume what's going on here is more catch-up from the abysmal 2019 performance.
More importantly, I don't expect that they're playing much catch-and-release. At least 78% were definitely sent back even if you only count the Title 8s.
Source (Table 1) for encounters and quote, source (Table 39) for repatriations. If you want to go through and HTML format the rest of the rows, you'd have my eternal gratitude.
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