Two days after the Biden administration issued an executive order to end the Department of Justice s reliance on private prisons, Representative Jason Crow and other members of Congress called on the president to also commit to ending the use of private prisons for immigrant detention. The Federal Government has a responsibility to ensure the safe and humane treatment of those in its care, and that must be as true for individuals detained in private prisons in DOJ custody as it is for individuals detained in private prisons in the Department of Homeland Security custody. We stand ready to work with the Biden Administration to end the use of private immigration detention facilities by ICE, 75 members of Congress stated in a January 28 letter organized by representatives Crow, Pramila Jayapal and Raul Ruiz to David Pekoske, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Rosa Jimenez hugs Esme Gonzalez, 10, in front of the ICE field office in San Antonio after Jimenez was released Wednesday. Gonzalez became close to Jimenez while her mom, Vanessa Potkin, an Innocence Project attorney, worked to free Jimenez, who was in state prison for the last 16 years. A state district judge ordered Jimenez released on bond because she and the new Travis County district attorney believe Jimenez was wrongly convicted based on trial testimony provided by people who weren’t experts. Jimenez, who is free on bond, will live in Travis County while she waits for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to review her case.Jessica Phelps /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
27 Jan 2021
President Joe Biden’s orders that seek to cripple interior enforcement of federal immigration law is disrupting the operations at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Two orders from the Biden administration, released via a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo, have left many at ICE confused as to the perimeters of their duty in enforcing federal immigration law.
“It’s a mess,” former ICE Director Thomas Homan told Breitbart News of the orders issued by the Biden administration to the agency’s staff.
The memo includes a 100-day halt to deportations which has since been at least temporarily blocked by a federal judge for nearly all illegal aliens except those who are convicted of “aggravated felonies” and a dismantling of immigration enforcement that prevents ICE agents from arresting illegal aliens who are not convicted felons, known or suspected terrorists, or newly-arrived border crossers.