11 Jun 2021
President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief is discarding a Trump-era program to aid the American victims of crime by illegal migrants and is replacing it with a program to help more illegal migrants get green cards from Americans.
“The Victim Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office is terminated,” said the June 11 announcement from deputies for Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Instead, officials are creating a “Victims Engagement and Services Line” (VESL) to offer:
…a more comprehensive and inclusive victim support system … to all victims regardless of immigration status of the victim or perpetrator. The expanded services provided through VESL will include guidance on available[getting] U- and T-visa]s[s].
Following a recent deportation flight from Germany to Afghanistan, the German government said it will continue with the practice. Critics say Afghanistan is too dangerous and rejected asylum seekers should not be sent back there.