{"id":24996,"date":"2021-09-22T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24996"},"modified":"2021-09-22T14:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:23:27","slug":"biden-haiti-defend-law-migrants-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/09\/22\/biden-haiti-defend-law-migrants-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Deportations to Haiti Merely Flights of Fancy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As President Joe Biden begins to deport Haitian migrants<\/a> out of Texas, will he take the next logical step and defend a federal law that makes it a felony for removed aliens to return to the U.S.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the mass incursion hit Del Rio, a federal district judge<\/a> in Nevada struck down a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act<\/a>, which makes re-entry to the U.S. after deportation a felony offense. According to Judge Miranda Du, a Barack Obama appointee, that section of law violates the Constitution\u2019s Equal Protection Clause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision was hailed by open-borders enthusiasts like Julian Castro<\/a>. Obama\u2019s former secretary of Housing and Urban Development asserted that the law \u201chas an incredibly racist history,\u201d and tweeted, \u201cI doubt the Biden DOJ [Department of Justice] will want to defend it in the appellate court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But failing to challenge\nJudge Du\u2019s ruling will only raise questions about the seriousness and efficacy\nof Biden\u2019s airlifts out of Texas. If the White House were truly committed to\nremoving illegal aliens, and keeping them out, wouldn\u2019t it want the penalties\nfor returning to remain in force? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is somewhat rhetorical, given Team Biden\u2019s dismal enforcement record. Earlier this month, DOJ lawyers persuaded an appellate panel<\/a> to uphold narrow and selective criteria that have curbed deportations. February-July removals fell 33 percent from the same period last year, while the Border Patrol let 50,000 illegal aliens<\/a> into the country without even handing them notices to appear in immigration court. It all makes this summer\u2019s handful of \u201cfast-track\u201d deportation flights<\/a> to Central America pale into insignificance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas<\/a> sounded unequivocal this week when he declared: \u201cIf you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned.\u201d But that was countered by other U.S. officials<\/a> who reported that Haitians are being released on a \u201cvery, very large scale.\u201d The figure is said to reach into the thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nadministration\u2019s tough talk rings hollow because it has created any number of\nloopholes and exclusions to limit or altogether halt deportations. As Mark\nKrikorian at the Center for Immigration Studies noted, deportations are<\/em> possible unless<\/em> \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n