Biden-Harris have done everything possible to protect migrant criminals from deportation
When the Biden-Harris administration took office, they pledged to focus immigration enforcement on criminal aliens, rather than on “ordinary” illegal immigrants.The result? More criminal migrants than ever before!ICE recently released data showing that there are more than 600,000 foreign criminals on ICE’s docket who are not in the agency’s custody.Some are probably in state or local jails, but hundreds of thousands are walking our streets.Is anyone surprised?Remember, this is the administration that announced a 100-day moratorium on all deportations — criminals, terrorists, anybody — the day it took office.It hasn’t gotten much better since.My colleague Jon Feere, a former ICE chief of staff, compared criminal deportations in the first three years of this administration and the previous one.
The results are sobering.Under Biden-Harris:Getting the idea?Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — who was impeached by the House of Representatives for shenanigans like this — issued a memo shortly after Biden appointed him that handcuffs ICE agents.The memo said only certain illegal immigrants may be targeted for enforcement, including, to be fair, those engaged in “serious criminal conduct” (though candidate Joe Biden said drunk driving was not a serious crime).But before an ICE agent is even allowed to question an illegal alien, the memo requires that he determine whether there are any “mitigating” factors, including the alien’s age, whether he supports a family, and whether he has “a mental condition that may have contributed to the criminal conduct.”The obvious goal is to make it too hard to actually enforce the law.Another reason for known criminal aliens walking the streets is that the Biden-Harris DHS is strongly opposed to detaining any illegal immigrants at all, which is the only way to make sure they actually leave.The average daily number of deportable migrants in ICE detention fell by almost half from 2019 to 2023, even...