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.