People line up to be screened by Customs and Border Protection agents at Miami International Airport.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security David Pekoske sent a letter to his office on the evening of Jan. 20 stating that for 100 days beginning Jan. 22, deportation of certain non-citizens will be suspended pending a review of immigration enforcement regulations.
The memorandum states that the suspension of deportation does not apply to foreign nationals suspected of terrorism or of endangering national security, nor does it apply to foreign nationals who arrive in the United States after November 1, 2020, or who have voluntarily relinquished their residency in the United States.
The suspension of deportation also does not apply if the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has completed a case-by-case assessment that a particular individual must be deported.
NBC reported that Pecosch wrote in a memo to his agency, “The Department of Homeland Security will suspend the deportation of certain noncitizens for a 100-day period beginning Jan. 22 to ensure that we have a civil, efficient immigration enforcement mechanism that is focused on maintaining national security, border security and public safety.
The Pecoski memo was received by Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security.
During the administration of former President Trump, he took a hard-line stance on immigration policy, offering a “zero tolerance” policy at the border that led to the separation of thousands of illegal immigrant children from their Parents. Immigration attorneys point out that hundreds of these children are still unable to find their parents’ whereabouts.
Biden was sworn in on the 20th and signed a series of executive orders overturning some of the immigration policies of the Trump presidency.
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