House GOP Probes Historically Low ICE Arrests After Biden Policy Changes; ICE COLD: Immigration Arrests Hit Historic Lows, Biden Admin Slowly Dismantling ICE

EXCLUSIVE: House GOP probes historically low ICE arrests after Biden policy changes:

Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are probing the “historically low” rate of arrests of illegal immigrants by ICE, saying it appears the Biden administration, unwilling to abolish the agency outright, is instead paring it down through policy memos.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican on the committee, and Rep. Michael Cloud of Texas, the top Republican on the economic and consumer policy subcommittee, fired off a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement demanding data on why the agency, which has not lost any funding, is arresting and deporting people at a much slower pace than in the past.

In the letter, obtained first by The Washington Times, they tied the decrease to policies that the Biden team implemented in February and renewed in September that limit the ability of ICE officers to go after illegal immigrants except in the most serious criminal cases, national security threats or recent border crossings.

“As radical, left-wing activists recklessly call to abolish ICE, it appears the Biden Administration is abolishing its mission by memorandum,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter, joined by the other Republicans on the House oversight committee.

Mr. Comer and Mr. Cloud asked acting ICE Director Tae D. Johnson to turn over records on enforcement during President Biden’s tenure, broken down by types of crimes. They also requested the documentary trail that led to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ key changes this fall.

In a late-September memo, Mr. Mayorkas declared that being in the country illegally is no longer sufficient grounds for arrest or deportation. Agents and officers must justify arrests by studying their targets and balancing criminal records against “mitigating” factors such as ties to the country or hardship they or their family might face if they are deported. —>READ MORE HERE

ICE COLD: Immigration Arrests Hit Historic Lows, Biden Admin Slowly Dismantling ICE:

The House Oversight and Reform Committee is digging into the “historically low” ICE arrests of illegal immigrants. According to the Washington Times, instead of dismantling the agency outright, the Biden administration has been kneecapping it using bureaucratic nonsense.

“Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, and Rep. Michael McCloud of Texas, the top Republican on the economic and consumer policy subcommittee, fired off a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement demanding data on why the agency, which has not lost any funding, is arresting and deporting people at a much slower pace than in the past,” the WT reports.

“As radical left-wing activists recklessly call to abolish ICE, it appears the Biden Administration is abolishing its mission by memorandum,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter, joined by the other Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. —>READ MORE HERE

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