On his first day in office, Biden issued an executive order halting all interior deportations for 100 days. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas followed up with new enforcement guidelines drastically restricting ICE agents’ ability to arrest, detain, and deport even criminal illegal immigrants.
Under the new rules, agents can only arrest illegal immigrants who entered illegally after Nov. 1, 2021, are national security threats, or have committed serious felonies.
“We have fundamentally changed immigration enforcement in the interior,” Mayorkas later said, just days before December’s record-setting apprehension numbers came out. “For the first time ever, our policy explicitly states that a noncitizen’s unlawful presence in the United States will not, by itself, be a basis for the initiation of an enforcement action.”
Over 2 million migrants were caught illegally crossing the southern border in 2021. Half were released into the United States. Another 2 million are expected next year. Biden has no plans to track down any of them, not even if they rack up rap sheets as long as Pando’s. Combine zero enforcement of immigration policy with the proliferation of left-wing district attorneys who see their job as deflecting felony convictions away from career criminals, and a whole lot of bad actors will get to stay and prey on U.S. citizens.
It is a privilege, not a right, for foreign nationals to be in the U.S. — for days, for months, or permanently. There are enough native-born criminals in this country already. There is no need to import them.