So what are the Trump policies that need to be enforced? What laws are not being enforced that need to be? Limit them how and to what degree?
Also, what bill is this in? And who are the sponsors?
Day 1. Acting DHS Secretary David Pekoske issued a
memo captioned “Review of and Interim Revision to Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies and Priorities” (the Pekoske memo).
It announced a 100-day review of DHS immigration-enforcement policies, as well as a 100-day hold on nearly all removals from the United States (the latter was blocked by a federal judge and then expired).
Under the guise of “limited resources”, the Pekoske memo narrowed immigration enforcement to three specified "priorities": spies, terrorists, and other threats to national security; aliens who entered illegally on or after November 1, 2020; and aliens convicted of aggravated felonies under
section 101(a)(43) of the INA released from incarceration on or after the date of that memorandum.
Biden’s reversals.
1/20/21 -
Extends deferrals of deportation and work authorizations for Liberians with a safe haven in the United States until June 30, 2022.
1/20/21 -
Halts construction of the border wall by terminating the national emergency declaration used to fund it.
1/20/21 -
Undoes Trump’s expansion of immigration enforcement within the United States.
1/20/21 - Reverses the Trump administration’s
restrictions on US entry for passport holders from seven Muslim-majority countries.
1/20/21 -
Fortifies DACA after Trump’s efforts to undo protections for undocumented people brought into the country as children.
2/2/21 - Rescinds Trump’s memo requiring immigrants to repay the government if they receive public benefits. Elevates the role of the executive branch in promoting immigrant integration and inclusion, including reestablishing a Task Force on New Americans. Requires agencies to review immigration regulations and policies.
2/2/21 -
Revokes Trump’s order justifying separating families at the border and creates a task force that recommends steps to Biden to reunite separated families.
2/4/21 -
Expands the United States Refugee Admissions Program and rescinds Trump policies that limited refugee admissions and required additional vetting.
2/24/21 - Revokes a Trump-era proclamation that limited legal immigration during the Covid-19 pandemic.
4/16/21 - Reverses the Trump policy banning refugees from key regions and enables flights from those regions to begin within days.
Declares that the 15,000 annual refugee cap set by Trump will be raised to a number to be determined by May 15.
Non-enforcement of current laws.
The INA
requires DHS to detain illegal entrants — from the moment they’re caught to the point they’re granted immigration status or removed — Biden instead released
1.129 million aliens encountered at the border through the end of June 2022. Aliens enter illegally to live and work here, and those releases allowed them to achieve that goal, encouraging more to come. It prefers to manage the chaos at the border by
moving illegal migrants into the
already overwhelmed immigration court system instead. Once
in court (assuming they show up), those aliens can extend their illegal stays in the United States indefinitely, most by filing asylum claims.
I’m sure there is more, but my final submission here is the memorandum to ICE by Mayorkas on 9/30/21. Basically states that there are “more than 11M undocumented or otherwise removable noncitizens in the U.S.” States that they don’t have the resources to remove them. Therefore, DHS and ICE needs to use their discretion to prioritize action. The three priorities are: 1. Threat to National Security 2. Threat to public safety. 3. Threat to border security.
https://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/guidelines-civilimmigrationlaw.pdf
news.wisc.edu
www.scientificamerican.com
