Four Texas sheriffs, their counties and an association of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden and officials of his Department of Homeland Security accusing them o “violating federal statutes that require certain illegal aliens to be detained and removed from the US.
The complaint was filed in the federal court of the Southern District of Texas on Thursday afternoon after Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas directed ICE and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to place new restrictions on civil immigration enforcement actions.
A memorandum to ICE and CBP was issued to personnel by the Acting Director of ICE Tae Johnson and Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller stating the only immigrants viewed as a threat to national security, border security, or public safety could be taken into custody without first obtaining permission of ICE leadership.
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs are requesting the Biden Administration to follow the law and to allow the ICE officers to do their job.
The lawsuit claims that ICE officers requested permission to take custody of numerous dangerous illegal aliens, including child rapists and drug dealers, but have been denied permission by their superiors under the Biden Administration policy.
According to Kris Kobach, former Kansas secretary of state and the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Biden administration policy stands in direct violation of not one, but three, different federal statutes, forcing ICE to stand down, almost bringing deportations to a halt, fueling the crisis at the border by encouraging more illegal immigration and creating an unbearable burden for local law enforcement in Texas.
Prior to the policy change, illegal immigrants apprehended by a sheriff’s department could be turned over to ICE where they would face deportation proceedings before a judge. Sheriffs are now obliged to release the illegal immigrants back into society.
Meanwhile, the tensions continue to simmer over the unabated migrant crisis challenging the US with Republicans warning that Biden’s administration currently has no operational, legal or law enforcement control across the country’s southern border.
GOP Rep. Bob Good said in an interview with Fox News that this administration willfully and intentionally facilitate the illegal entry into US of tens of thousands immigrants.
According to US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) data, around 930,000 illegal immigrant encounters have been recorded at the southern border of the US since January, and over 180,000 of these individuals arrived in May alone.
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