{"id":460359,"date":"2021-04-28T01:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T05:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460359"},"modified":"2021-04-28T08:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:22:58","slug":"biden-administration-limits-arrest-of-illegal-immigrants-at-courthouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-limits-arrest-of-illegal-immigrants-at-courthouses\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Limits Arrest of Illegal Immigrants at Courthouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-limits-arrest-of-illegal-immigrants-at-courthouses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460359&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Secretary of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas announced new guidance on Tuesday to limit the arrest of illegal immigrants in or near courthouses, reversing a Trump-era policy that expanded such arrests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnsuring that individuals have access to the courts advances the fair administration of justice, promotes safety for crime victims, and helps to guarantee equal protection under the law,\u201d Mayorkas said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2021\/04\/27\/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expansion of civil immigration arrests at courthouses during the prior administration had a chilling effect on individuals\u2019 willingness to come to court or work cooperatively with law enforcement,\u201d he continued. \u201cToday\u2019s guidance is the latest step in our efforts to focus our civil immigration enforcement resources on threats to homeland security and public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under former President Donald Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ice\">ICE<\/a>) issued a Directive (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Document\/2018\/ciEnforcementActionsCourthouses.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) in January 2018 regarding civil immigration enforcement actions inside federal, state, and local courthouses. ICE stated at the time that such arrests \u201care wholly consistent with longstanding law enforcement practices, nationwide,\u201d and could reduce safety risks because individuals entering courthouses \u201care typically screened by law enforcement personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3794122\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3794122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1311.jpeg\" alt=\"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) execute criminal search warrants\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/noscript><\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-460362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1311.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1311.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1311-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1311-480x320.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s Homeland Security Investigations officers execute a criminal search warrant in Texas, in an August 2018 photo. (ICE\/via Reuters)<\/figure>\n<p>DHS\u2019s new policy stipulates that the arrests could only be done under limited circumstances, such as situations that pose a national security issue, or imminent risk of death or physical harm, or hot pursuit of someone who is a threat to public safety, or imminent risk of destruction of evidence material to a criminal case.<\/p>\n<p>The new guidance also applies to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cbp\">CBP<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Miller, a former senior adviser to Trump, criticized the new policy, saying it will release huge numbers of criminals while putting ICE officers in unsafe situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce more, [President Joe] Biden privileges the convenience of criminal aliens over the lives of US citizens,\u201d Miller wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenM\/status\/1387116629276954632\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cMaking matters worse, I\u2019m told the policy also applies to immigration courts\u2014further ensuring that non-detained aliens who lose in court will never be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3706695\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3706695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1332.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White House senior adviser Stephen Miller at the White House in Washington on July 8, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAngel Dad\u201d Dan Ferguson, whose 28-year-old daughter Amanda Weyant-Ferguson was killed in a hit and run by an illegal alien in 2018, also expressed anger over this new policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter would be alive today if a judge would have allowed ICE to do their job,\u201d Ferguson wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jfergu2121\/status\/1387134650414518272\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cInstead, he was released and later killed my girl while drinking and driving. When will enough be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DHS didn\u2019t respond to a request from The Epoch Times for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the Biden administration has limited ICE\u2019s ability to remove illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 20, the first day when Biden took office, his acting DHS Secretary David Pekoske signed a memorandum (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/21_0120_enforcement-memo_signed.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) directing DHS components to review and reset enforcement policies while canceling most of Trump\u2019s immigration enforcement policies. The memo prevented ICE from\u00a0removing the vast majority of criminal illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/about\/offices\/ero\/pdf\/eroFY2018Report.pdf\">fiscal year 2018 report<\/a>, ICE pointed out that 66 percent of the aliens arrested were convicted criminals, and 21 percent had pending criminal charges. That year ICE arrested 138,117 aliens with criminal histories (convicted criminal and pending criminal charges).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas announced new guidance on Tuesday to limit the arrest of illegal immigrants in or near courthouses, reversing a Trump-era policy that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1311.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Administration Limits Arrest of Illegal Immigrants at Courthouses","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1311.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Administration Limits Arrest of Illegal Immigrants at Courthouses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}