{"id":24112,"date":"2021-02-04T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24112"},"modified":"2021-02-04T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:58:39","slug":"senators-warn-danger-halt-deportations-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/02\/04\/senators-warn-danger-halt-deportations-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Demand Details About Risks Posed by Biden Deportation Moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A group of senators on Wednesday raised profound concerns about a 100-day deportation moratorium proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Addressing DHS\u2019s January 20 memorandum<\/a>, they said the memo represents a public safety threat and \u201ca wholescale abandonment of law enforcement\u201d is \u201cparticularly egregious\u201d as it fails to exempt criminal aliens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith respect to the 100-day deportation moratorium, we\nnoted with alarm that there is no general exception to the\nmoratorium for criminal aliens<\/em><\/strong>. Under the terms of the memorandum,\nunless the [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] ICE Director determines that\nthe law requires a specific criminal alien be removed, most<\/em><\/strong> criminal\naliens with final removal orders will be untouchable as long as the deportation\nmoratorium is in place<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d wrote Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and 11\nfellow senators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their letter<\/a> to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson, the Republican lawmakers underscored their fears by noting that\u00a092 percent of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations\u2019 (ERO) removals either had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges in Fiscal Year 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moratorium is temporarily on hold as U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton last week granted<\/a> a\u00a0request<\/a>\u00a0by officials in Texas for a temporary restraining order, which puts the dangerous policy on pause for the moment. In his ruling, Tipton determined that the Biden administration had failed \u201cto provide any concrete, reasonable justification for a 100-day pause on deportations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DHS Secretary Mayorkas, who had yet to be confirmed at the\ntime the memo was written, surely knows there is no justification. More\nimportantly, he is very familiar with the real threat to the public when\ncriminal aliens are not expeditiously deported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June of 2015, then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley demanded<\/a> answers from officials in the Obama-Biden administration after learning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data showed that as many as 121 homicides in the U.S. \u201ccould have been avoided\u201d between FY2010 and FY 2014 had they not released deportable criminal aliens \u201cback into society where they could commit more crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayorkas was ICE Deputy Director at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Tipton did in his ruling, the senators took issue with\nthe DHS\u2019s claim that the allegedly temporary pause was needed \u201cto enable\nfocusing the Department\u2019s resources where they are most needed\u201d was a\nlinguistic shroud over its real impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose seemingly harmless words mask what this memorandum\nactually does: it turns our nation of laws into a nation of loopholes. It is an\ninsult to the men and women of DHS who have sworn to uphold those laws,\u201d wrote the\nlawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to those raised by the senators, the DHS memo prompts\na few other questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is it not a violation of his newly-taken oath for\nSecretary Mayorkas to order DHS employees to knowingly ignore the law?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can the administration claim there is no crisis at the\nsouthern border if they are halting deportations to rush ICE agents are\ndesperately needed at the border? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do DHS officials share Vice President Kamala Harris view that ICE agents are comparable to the KKK<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DHS memo directs ICE agents to be deployed to handle\nasylum processing. Given that ICE agents are not trained for this task, won\u2019t\nit consume more time and money to train them to do so? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will the ACLU, which said using Customs and Border Protection agents<\/a> to process migrants was an effort by the Trump administration to \u201crig\u201d the system, similarly oppose DHS\u2019s proposal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that American lives are in the balance and the injunction could be lifted at any time, it is imperative that the Biden administration fully explain to elected officials and the public why a deportation moratorium is anything but utter lunacy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of senators on Wednesday raised profound concerns about a 100-day deportation moratorium proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Addressing DHS\u2019s January 20 memorandum, they said the memo represents a public safety threat and \u201ca wholescale abandonment of law enforcement\u201d is \u201cparticularly egregious\u201d as it fails to exempt criminal aliens. \u201cWith respect<\/p>\n

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