"As pathways to freedom narrow" … meaning Joe Biden isn't president and letting in tens of millions of unvetted illegals through the border and flying them around the country. CBS News reports that more illegal alien detainees are voluntarily leaving the country, which the Trump administration facilitated with the CBP Home app and even offered a financial incentive.
As pathways to freedom have narrowed in immigration courts across the United States, a record number of detainees are giving up their cases and voluntarily leaving the country.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 12, 2026
https://t.co/6cedTYkDc8
Julia Ingram and Kati Weis report for CBS News:
As pathways to freedom have narrowed in immigration courts across the United States, a record number of detainees are giving up their cases and voluntarily leaving the country.
Last year, 28% of completed immigration removal cases among those in detention ended in voluntary departure, a higher share than in any year prior, a CBS News analysis of decades of court records found.
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"It's set up for every individual who is detained to get to the point where they're just emotionally drained and exhausted through it all of the way that we're being treated, to just say, 'OK, all I want is my freedom,'" said Vilma Palacios, who agreed to return to Honduras in late December after being detained for six months in Basile, Louisiana.
Het gets it.
That literally was the idea. https://t.co/u9VWcxCOhy
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) February 12, 2026
Funny how simply enforcing the laws on the books actually helps solve the problem.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) February 12, 2026
There is a lesson here, methinks.
This is why Trump Administration decision to finally follow Congress's demand that aliens remain detained during pendency of hearings is so huge. Self-removal will increase 10 fold once illegals understand they won't be able to stay free in US short term or long term. https://t.co/YzlW5xrCaf
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) February 12, 2026
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"pathways to freedom"
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) February 12, 2026
The liberal media is trying so hard to turn this into a civil rights cause.
Illegal aliens in detention can literally leave whenever they want—just not into the country they broke into. https://t.co/dgIrDKB2lg
Their “pathway to freedom” is that they are free to leave.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) February 12, 2026
Exactly like the Holocaust.
— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦🇸🇴Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) February 12, 2026
Thanks, Trump!
— JWF (@JammieWF) February 12, 2026
So the “pathways to freedom” haven’t actually narrowed have they? They can leave anytime they want.
— Vanessa Hunt (@meetuatthefence) February 12, 2026
Leaving the country is freedom; wherever else they go is between them and every other country on the planet. It just isn't freedom to live without authorization inside the United States.
— David Gaw (@davidgaw) February 12, 2026
80% of asylum seekers vacation in their home country. So, probably just considered a vacation.
— Cloud Chaser (@MilitaryVet343) February 12, 2026
“Are giving up their cases and vacationing in their home country”
Good. No country on earth allows this shit. Unbelievable that our media tries to pretend this is acceptable ANYWHERE when’s it’s acceptable NOWHERE!
— MB (@Joie_Mb) February 12, 2026
Self-deporting is their best option: No ICE tackling you on the street. Free airfare. $2600 to cushion your arrival. And no bar to re-entry again. Very inconvenient, I agree. But THEY failed to care for their paperwork & got themselves into this position. #Deportation
— Becky With The Good Hair (@BeckyJohnson222) February 12, 2026
“Pathways to freedom”
— Mark Milley’s Stylist 🇺🇸 (@Col_Crockett) February 12, 2026
Wow good job @bariweiss you guys are really crushing this whole journalism thing
So, more illegals are choosing to self-deport rather than stay in ICE detention? The system is working.
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