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Apr 23, 2021 07:47 PM EDT
ICE officials have decided to end the Trump-era policy on immigration as they say it was not effective. Since finding the program to be ineffective, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said it canceled the two Trump-era policies on the collection of financial sanctions and planned to cancel fines already imposed on undocumented immigrants.
The step is part of the Biden administration s attempt to restrict the reach of immigration policy, which includes many moves away from the Trump administration s immigration policies. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, There is no evidence that these penalties enforced compliance with noncitizens departure obligations. Without resorting to ineffective and unnecessary disciplinary measures, we should uphold our immigration laws.
Customs and Border Protection, the agency that oversees the Border Patrol, has carried out more than 630,000 expulsions in the past year. As The Intercept detailed in an investigation published last weekend, Border Patrol agents have used Title 42 as a basis to drop asylum-seekers in Mexican border towns in the middle of the night a practice that’s been largely prohibited for years under agreements between the U.S. and Mexico. The agents have also relied on Title 42 to expel individuals and families through remote ports that were previously not used for removals, into communities dominated by organized crime and without transportation services. The law is under challenge in the courts, with critics arguing that what’s been presented as a public health measure is in fact being used as a means to deny people their rights under domestic and international law. Hundreds of thousands of travelers continue to pass through the nation’s ports every day; it’s asylum-seekers and vir
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About the Moderator:
Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. Her doctoral work centered on a coalition of social movement organizations calling for an end to the ongoing non-governmental occupation of Haiti. She is currently working on a monograph entitled
Development Contested in Occupied Haiti: Social Movements, NGOs, and the Evangelical State. She has also served as an organizer with land and housing rights organizations Take Back the Land-Miami and is presently the International Coordinator for Community Movement Builders.
Mark Schuller is Professor at Northern Illinois University and affiliate at the Faculté d Ethnologie, l Université d État d Haïti. Author or co-editor of eight books, including