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Leaked docs show Border Patrol ordered to release thousands of migrants —with no way to track them

Straining under the pressure of thousands of migrants flooding into the US, Border Patrol agents were ordered to begin releasing swaths of people from overwhelmed holding facilities Wednesday.

Agents were ordered Wednesday to release migrants from any border sector that reached 125% capacity. They are being released without having a court date and with no way the US can track them, but given instructions to appear at an immigration office within 60 days, according to NBC.

“We’re already breaking and we haven’t hit the starting line,” one DHS official told the network.

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