ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations is an "unofficial travel coordination agency," where agents coordinate travel for some illegal immigrants with criminal records, an ICE source told Fox News.
WASHINGTON Immigration arrests in the interior of the United States fell in fiscal 2021 to the lowest level in more than a decade roughly half the annual totals recorded during the Trump administration, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by The Washington Post.
FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are accusing the Biden administration of abandoning its duty to enforce U.S. immigration law by its drastic tightening of rules for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – which have coincided with a drop in arrests of illegal immigrants.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., discusses the potential impact of Democrats’ progressive agenda.
FIRST ON FOX: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) predicted in January that there would be a 50% reduction of arrests of illegal immigrants if new guidance that severely limits ICE arrests was enforced a prediction that ultimately proved to be accurate, as arrests plunged a month later.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued interim guidance on Inauguration Day, which narrowed immigration enforcement priorities to illegal immigrants who were: a national security threat; recent border crossers; or convicted of an aggravated felony. It also included a pause on deportations, which was later blocked by a judge in response to a lawsuit from Texas.
Deportation officers said it would be akin to a city police department converting its beat cops to detectives, leaving nobody to patrol the streets for basic crimes.
“This is an administrative abolishment of ICE as we currently know it,” one source told The Washington Times.
Mr. Mayorkas, in his telephone meeting, left many questions unanswered, such as whether the officers would have to go through new training and what the pay structure would be. He did say he felt the officers were in the wrong pay system now, according to the The Times’ sources.
Tae Johnson, acting director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was also part of the conversation and agreed with Mr. Mayorkas’ direction, one source said.