With Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations already at historic lows, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a memo today instructing ICE agents to deport even fewer illegal immigrants convicted of criminal activity in the United States.
“Whether a noncitizen poses a current threat to public safety is not to be determined according to bright lines or categories,” Mayorkas’s memo says. “Some people convicted of a crime but who do not pose a threat to public safety and have family in the United States could be allowed to stay,” the Washington Post summarized Mayorkas as saying.
So, for example, an illegal immigrant convicted of drunk driving, reckless driving, or driving without a license would be allowed to stay under the Biden administration’s new policy if that illegal immigrant had children living in the U.S.
Mayorkas had already issued a memo this February instructing ICE to prioritize the deportation of only those immigrants who pose a threat to national security or public safety.
This new memo further weakens ICE’s deportation powers by providing more protection for illegal immigrants with “mitigating factors” including “if they arrived at a young age or have a mental condition, and if their deportation would affect their families in the United States.”
This decision to allow even more illegal immigrant criminals to stay in the U.S. comes as the Biden administration is facing extreme pressure from the radical open-borders Left to let as many migrants as possible illegally cross the southern border.
