ICE is warning Congress that without funding it could be forced to release tens of thousands of immigrants into the U.S., which “shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone” because the U.S. now has “over 20 million people in our country illegally, and we’re now having to play catch-up,” Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, told Newsmax.

“We’re going to have to figure out, you know, moving forward, the policy changes that are going to make sure that this doesn’t happen again,” Van Duyne told Newsmax TV’s “The National Report.”

“For the last four years, Republicans have been, you know, having this siren that this is overwhelming the system and that the policies that have been allowing catch and release that you’ve got so many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of potentially terrorist, criminal, drug cartels, gang members in our country.

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