Faced with an enormous crisis at the southern border in which approximately 200,000 migrant encounters a month were registered for the past five months, the Biden administration has allegedly pushed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport more illegal immigrants.
Despite the increased political pressure that the border crisis caused, it seems that the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t taken a more aggressive approach yet.
After rolling back the Trump-era border policies – including stopping most border wall construction, ending the Remain-in-Mexico policy, and a narrowed scope for ICE arrests and deportations – the administration has come under intense fire from Republicans.
This fiscal year alone, there have been more than two million migrant encounters and GOP blamed the Biden administration for the dramatic surge in migrants that has exploded under its watch.
Recent media reports note that White House officials pushed ICE this year to deport more illegal immigrants under a detained docket that focuses on migrants that have recently crossed the border as part of a family unit.
According to reports, just 150 of about 60,000 migrants that have entered the docket since it was launched in May 2021, have been deported through July.
Despite the fact that DHS reportedly outlined options to deport more illegal immigrants under the program due to the pressure from the White House that remains, an internal DHS document noted the department never increased its deportations.
The document said that public perception of ICE or the views around immigration enforcement will not improve by forced deportations that leave behind traumatized children and parents.
After last year’s attempts by the Biden administration to place a 100-day moratorium on all deportations that were blocked by court order, ICE was given narrowed guidelines that limited agents only to recent border crossers, immigrants posing public safety threats, and those posing national security threats.
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