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The Biden administration on Saturday halted its limits on
immigration arrests to comply with a court ruling that took
effect over the weekend, leaving deportation agents across the
U.S. without any official instructions on which immigrants they
should, and should not, detain.
In September 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents to arrest immigrants deemed to pose a threat to public
safety or national security, and migrants who recently crossed a
U.S. border unlawfully.
The rules, part of a broader Biden administration effort to
reshape ICE's immigration enforcement functions, generally
shielded unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before
November 2020 from arrest and deportation if they had not
committed serious crimes.
But Republican officials in Texas and Louisiana earlier this
month convinced a federal judge to set aside Mayorkas' rules on
the premise that he lacked the authority to issue them. U.S.
Judge Drew Tipton, who was appointed by former President Donald
Trump, also said Mayorkas' memo was improperly enacted.
Tipton agreed to pause his ruling to give the administration
time to appeal, and the Justice Department asked the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals to suspend his order. But the appellate
court did not issue a decision on the government's request
before Tipton lifted the pause on his ruling on Saturday morning.
In a statement to CBS News on Saturday, the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security said it "strongly" disagreed with Tipton's
order, but that it was complying with it.
"During the appeals process, ICE agents and officers will make
enforcement decisions on a case-by-case basis in a professional
and responsible manner, informed by their experience as law
enforcement officials and in a way that best protects against
the greatest threats to the homeland," the department said.
While the suspension of ICE's arrest prioritization scheme is
unlikely to place the country's estimated 11 million
unauthorized immigrants in immediate danger of being arrested,
the absence of national standards could lead to inconsistent
enforcement actions across the U.S., including arrests of
immigrants whom agents were previously instructed not to detain,
legal experts said.
Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the non-partisan Migration
Policy Institute, said ICE agents will still have law
enforcement discretion to decide whether to make arrests. But he
said agents will no longer be barred by national rules from
arresting immigrants whom the Biden administration sought to
shield from deportation.
Without national rules, Chishti said, there will likely be
significant "variations" in how different ICE field offices
carry out arrests. ICE officials in Atlanta, for example, could
try to maximize arrests, he added.
"Individuals in jurisdictions which have historically been more
prone to enforcement have more to fear now than those in
jurisdictions that have a more balanced approach toward
enforcement," said Chishti, who leads the Migration Policy
Institute's New York office.
Representatives for ICE and DHS did not provide additional
details on how agents will decide whether to carry out arrests
in the absence of enforcement priorities.
The memo suspended over the weekend is part of a series of rules
the Biden administration has issued to narrow the groups of
immigrants subject to ICE arrests in the interior of the
country. Under President Biden, ICE has been instructed to
generally avoid detaining families with children, pregnant or
nursing women, victims of serious crimes and U.S. military
veterans.
The Biden administration has also discontinued large-scale ICE
arrests at worksites and expanded the list of so-called
"protected areas" where deportations agents should generally not
arrest immigrants to include disaster sites, places where
children gather and social services establishments.
Mr. Biden's appointees have argued the policy changes allow
ICE's 6,000 deportation agents to use their finite resources to
arrest immigrants who endanger public safety or national
security. Republicans, however, have denounced the rules as too
restrictive and argued that they encourage illegal immigration.
The court ruling blocking the ICE enforcement priorities is the
latest judicial victory for conservative states that have sought
to hinder Mr. Biden's immigration and border policies.
Through multiple lawsuits, Texas and other Republican-led states
have forced the administration to scrap an 100-day deportation
moratorium, close the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) program to new applicants and revive a Trump-era policy
that requires migrants to await their asylum hearings in Mexico.
In May, a federal judge granted a request by more than 20
Republican-led states and ordered the Biden administration to
continue using a public health law first invoked under Mr. Trump
to rapidly expel some migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border. The
administration had argued the emergency policy, known as Title
42, was no longer needed to control COVID-19.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-biden-administration- halts-limits-on-immigration-arrests/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a
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