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ICE Subverting Bidenâs Priorities for Detention and Deportation
A new report sheds light on how, despite orders from the Biden administration to narrow its immigration enforcement, ICE is still casting a wide net.
May 7 2021, 2:59Â p.m.
U.S. Border Patrol agents process migrant families in Roma, Tex., on April 30, 2021.Photo: John Moore/Getty ImagesU.S. Border Patrol agents process migrant families in Roma, Tex., on April 30, 2021.Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
On the first day of Joe Bidenâs presidency, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo to change immigration enforcement priorities and limit the number of people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would target and detain. The same day, Biden issued an executive order declaring a partial moratorium on deportations. Both the new immigration enforcement priorities, which have been sporadically upheld by ICE, and the deportation moratorium, which was swiftly blocked after Texas