{"id":24284,"date":"2021-03-17T12:55:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24284"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:55:40","slug":"ice-boss-pleads-limited-resources-while-he-ties-up-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/03\/17\/ice-boss-pleads-limited-resources-while-he-ties-up-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Boss Pleads \u2018Limited Resources\u2019 While He Ties Up Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
With detentions<\/a> of illegal aliens at record lows and deportations<\/a> tumbling, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claims his agency lacks the resources to do its job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s\nnonsense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A careful reading of Tae Johnson\u2019s Feb. 18 memo<\/a> reveals how ICE leadership is expending time and resources to stymie removal of illegal aliens by adding layers of administrative red tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAliens who Congress says should be removed will have not one, but two chances to show that they are not \u2018priorities\u2019 for enforcement under the arbitrary and ridiculous (and possibly unlawful) guidelines that Biden’s ICE minions have foisted on the agency’s career officers and agents,\u201d writes Andrew Arthur<\/a>, of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). \u201cThat means those aliens’ cases will either be slowed to a halt or simply dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Johnson\u2019s\nmemo repeatedly cites \u201climited resources\u201d as a reason for not enforcing\nimmigration laws. Yet his directive implements a top-heavy bureaucratic\ncase-review process led \u201cby a senior reviewing officer based in Washington,\nD.C.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n In other\nwords, \u201cICE has enough money to pay a high-ranking official — and likely many,\nmany others, plus local and regional officials — to decide which aliens not to\ndeport, at the same time it contends it lacks the money to actually\ndeport removable aliens,\u201d Arthur notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe\nBiden administration is wasting \u2026 its $8 billion ICE budget deciding which\naliens not to deport, based on a risible contention that ICE’s resources\nare \u2018limited.\u2019 It is not deporting most aliens because it doesn’t want to\ndeport most aliens,\u201d says Arthur, a retired immigration court judge and former\nlegal counsel at the old Immigration and Naturalization Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In rescinding<\/a> previous enforcement programs, such as Trump\u2019s order \u201cEnhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,\u201d<\/a> Team Biden \u201cappears to be exempting all aliens from immigration enforcement,\u201d CIS\u2019s Rob Law concluded this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Johnson\u2019s boss, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejando Mayorkas<\/a>, announced his intention to allow more migrants to enter the U.S. by broadening grounds for asylum claims. How\u2019s that for stretching \u201climited resources\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n