The Biden administration’s approval of letting migrants use their arrest warrants at airport TSA checkpoints is drawing new fire and accusations that the president cares more for illegal immigrants than U.S. citizens.
Joining 10 critical senators Monday was Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who said in a letter that Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is creating a border “catastrophe” with the odd and controversial policy.
“Your oath of office is not a suggestion, but a solemn responsibility,” Brnovich said in the letter shared with Secrets.
He said the policy endangers the nation, asking that it end immediately.
“It is an affront to the most basic common sense to allow anyone to use an ‘arrest warrant’ as acceptable identification to pass through government security,” Brnovich said in the letter shown below.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has also complained, and nearly a dozen senators criticized the new policy in the past week.
“Permitting the use of ICE arrest warrants as travel documents is at best illogical, and at worst a serious threat to our nation’s homeland security,” they said in a letter organized by North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis.
TSA has argued the arrest warrant, a Form I-200 from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to notify of immigration violations, works because it is a federal form.
But instead of being used to welcome illegal immigrants through TSA checkpoints, critics believe it should be a deportation trigger. These words are at the top of the form: “Warrant for arrest of alien.”
Brnovich warned, “What is occurring at our border is nothing short of chaos and lawlessness, and an increasing number of Americans are paying the price for this administration’s intentional and reckless policies — with their safety and their lives.”
