Washington, United States
The government of U.S. President Joe Biden will soften the arrest and deportation criteria set by its predecessor, Donald Trump, for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), it said on Sunday. Washington Post.
The federal agency will present in the coming days new guidelines by which immigrants with minor charges such as driving under the influence of alcohol will not be deported and the ICE will focus on those who may pose a threat to national security.
Documents and emails to which the newspaper had access point out that the other priority targets will be immigrants who have recently crossed the border and people who have served sentences for serious crimes.
“In general, these convictions would not include drug-related offenses (less serious offenses), simple assault, DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs), money laundering, property offenses, fraud, tax offenses, application or charges without convictions, “said the interim director of ICE CREAM, Tae Johnson, to senior officials in an email last year.
But according to the Post and the digital media Buzz Feed, The new Administration’s attempt to focus arrests and deportations on this new profile of immigrants would go further and require ICE agents to obtain approval from a senior agency official to conduct routine street operations. .
The new criteria, according to the capital’s newspaper, are awaiting the final approval of Alejandro Mayorkas, who has just been appointed as the new Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS). ICE CREAM.
100 days without deportation
This measure would add to the 100-day moratorium on deportations ordered by Biden as soon as he arrived at the White House on Jan. 20, in a decision that was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.
And also to others of the Democratic leader, who wants to distance himself from the harsh policies of Trump, who tried by numerous means to reduce immigration to the country, both legal and illegal, and increase deportations by making all undocumented possible goal of the ICE CREAM.
But also the government of former President Barack Obama (2009-2017), of which Biden was vice president and during which 5.2 million immigrants were deported, according to data from the Institute for Migration Policy (MPI) , which led activists to describe the former president as a “chief deportee.”
These new guidelines are part of a broader package of measures Biden, Which includes suspending the construction of the border wall with Mexico and setting up a working group to reunite the minors who were separated from their parents after crossing the border.
The Democrat also instructed to review the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, also known as “Stay in Mexico,” for which more than 60,000 asylum seekers were returned to it. country to wait for its process and expand the annual number of refugees that will accept the US, among others. EFE