Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers guard a group of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed Thursday (May 6) that the number of deportations carried out by the U.S. in April was at an all-time low.
Meanwhile, the number of people crossing the U.S. border illegally hit a 20-year high.
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement completed 2,962 deportation cases, excluding those involving Title 42 of the U.S. Code (Title 42). This reflects the restrictions imposed by the Biden administration on the agency’s actions to deport illegal immigrants.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has focused its limited enforcement resources on threats to national security, border security, and public safety,” said a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson.
“This allows ICE to focus on the quality of enforcement actions and how to promote the safety and security of our communities, rather than just focusing on the simple quantity of arrests and deportations.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released an operational update in April saying it apprehended more than 172,000 illegal immigrants crossing the border at the Southwest border in March.
The agency said the number of unaccompanied illegal alien children from Central America increased 100 percent – 18,890 – in March compared to February.
“ICE will continue to implement, as directed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Jan. 20, the civilian immigration enforcement priorities that focus our limited resources on threats to national security, border security and public safety,” the spokesman wrote. “Immigration Enforcement will continue to perform its duties to enforce U.S. law in accordance with DHS’s national security and public safety mission.”
Last week, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office announced that they had obtained internal documents and emails from the federal government that “convey the Biden administration’s alarming disregard for the safety of American communities.”
Brovich said the documents and emails are related to lawsuits filed by the states of Arizona and Montana against the Department of Homeland Security. “The Biden administration and its activist allies are effectively abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement through administrative means.”
Of the 5,000 pages of administrative records found in the lawsuit against DHS and ICE officials, only 170 pages are unredacted.
Arizona and Montana were the first states to discover the information.
Brovich’s office said the states are “challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s interim guidance, which presumes that almost all deportations are suspended except for three minor categories.
The two states took legal action in March to block the Biden administration’s new immigration regulations. They claim it will have an adverse impact on the states.
According to Brovich’s office, emails in the record show that a senior ICE official said the new policy would result in about a 50 percent reduction in ICE arrests.
In addition, other data indicates that Biden’s policy could result in felons convicted of “murder, kidnapping, assault, sexual assault, weapons-related and other serious crimes” being released back into the community.
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