{"id":1132319,"date":"2023-07-13T20:20:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/production.public.theintercept.cloud\/?p=436015"},"modified":"2023-07-13T20:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:20:21","slug":"ice-disobeyed-bidens-order-to-drop-trumps-blanket-deportation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/13\/ice-disobeyed-bidens-order-to-drop-trumps-blanket-deportation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Disobeyed Biden\u2019s Order to Drop Trump\u2019s Blanket Deportation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
U.S. Immigration and<\/u> Customs Enforcement flouted guidance from the Biden administration to narrow its immigration arrests and prioritize deportation for migrants that pose threats to border security, public safety, and national security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shortly after President Joe Biden took office, his administration ordered<\/a> ICE to prioritize<\/a> action against people who posed security risks. A new report<\/a> from the American Immigration Council, a nonprofit advocacy group, found that about a third of ICE arrests between February and November 2021, in Biden\u2019s first year in office, involved people who were not considered risks to security or public safety. Half of ICE requests for local authorities to hold a migrant \u2014 called \u201cdetainers\u201d \u2014 during the same period were carried out against people who were not considered security risks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cICE was going outside of these priorities,\u201d said Raul Pinto, a senior staff attorney at the American Immigration Council who drafted the report, of Biden\u2019s orders. \u201cAt the end of the day, ICE was not following its own rules.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Biden administration issued guidance on new ICE enforcement priorities in January and February 2021. Former President Donald Trump\u2019s policies <\/a>made it an official priority<\/a> to target anyone <\/a>who was in the U.S. without authorization<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new Biden guidelines called on the agency to prioritize groups of people considered by the Department of Homeland Security \u2014 ICE\u2019s parent agency \u2014 to be threats to national security, border security, and public safety, and to use discretion in cases that fell outside of those categories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\u201cAt the end of the day, ICE was not following its own rules.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n