{"id":583436,"date":"2021-07-05T21:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583436"},"modified":"2021-07-05T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:06:01","slug":"texas-sheriffs-sue-biden-over-ice-restrictions-plummeting-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-sheriffs-sue-biden-over-ice-restrictions-plummeting-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Sheriffs Sue Biden Over ICE Restrictions, Plummeting Deportations"},"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%2Ftexas-sheriffs-sue-biden-over-ice-restrictions-plummeting-deportations%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=583436&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joe-Biden.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A group of Texas sheriffs sued the Biden administration last week for restricting the authority of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to take and deport illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriffs from the border counties of Kinney, Edwards, McMullen, and Hudspeth in Texas along with an association of ICE officers accused the Biden administration of violating federal immigration law with its restrictions on ICE operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of President Joe Biden\u2019s pledge to take a more humane approach to immigration enforcement compared to the harsh policies of former President Donald Trump, the Biden administration issued a memo Feb. 18 directing ICE to focus on deporting immigrants who are national security or terrorist threats, gang members, those who have been convicted of certain aggravated felonies and any that entered the country after Nov. 1,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/texas-sheriffs-sue-president-biden-for-limiting-deportations\/\">Courthouse News<\/a> reports. \u201cICE officers who want to take into custody jailed immigrants falling outside those categories must first obtain approval from their bosses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit states that the Biden administration\u2019s action has blocked ICE agents from taking into custody illegal immigrants accused of crimes such as human trafficking and drug smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the issuance of the February 18 Memorandum, ICE officers have been unable to take custody of, or issue detainer requests for, dangerous criminal aliens whose detention is mandated by the [Immigration and Nationality Act]. Specifically, detention is required for aliens who have committed or been convicted of numerous crimes other than aggravated felonies, such as: crimes of moral turpitude, crimes involving controlled substances, human trafficking, money laundering, and certain firearm offenses,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/321cv168.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> states.<\/p>\n<p>In May, ICE officials told The Washington Post that Biden had \u201cfunctionally abolished\u201d the agency by restricting its operations so much. The Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/functionally-abolished-ice-averaging-one-arrest-every-two-months-amid-border-crisis\">reported<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>Under new Biden administration rules curtailing immigration enforcement, ICE carried out fewer than 3,000 deportations last month, the lowest level on record. The agency\u2019s 6,000 officers currently average one arrest every two months.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>ICE under President Biden is an agency on probation. The new administration has rejected calls from some Democrats to eliminate the agency entirely, but Biden has placed ICE deportation officers on a leash so tight that some say their work is being functionally abolished.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As ICE deportations have plummeted, the number of people entering the U.S. illegally has spiked under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris in March to head the administration\u2019s response to the border crisis. Since the announcement, Harris has faced a heavy criticism from officials in some border states as the border crisis continues. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/arizona-ag-calls-on-biden-to-fire-harris-as-border-czar-for-abysmal-performance-ignoring-crisis\">called<\/a>&nbsp;on Biden to fire Harris as the administration\u2019s \u201cborder czar\u201d in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo date, her response to the border crisis has been absolutely abysmal, so I am requesting that she be replaced as your \u2018border czar,\u2019\u201d Brnovich wrote in a letter. \u201cWe are not nearly 50 days into her appointment, and Vice President Harris has shown little interest in observing what is happening along the border and has failed to articulate any plan to deal with the devastating effects of this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has blamed the ongoing border crisis on former President Donald Trump, claiming its policies led to the surge in immigration that began after Biden won the election last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter coming into office, our administration immediately jumped into action to address the influx of migrants at the border, something that began during and was exacerbated by the Trump administration,\u201d White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/psaki-attacks-trump-claims-influx-of-migrants-began-under-trump-exacerbated-by-destructive-and-chaotic-policies\">said<\/a>&nbsp;during a press conference May 4.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Texas sheriffs sued the Biden administration last week for restricting the authority of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to take and deport illegal immigrants.Sheriffs from the border &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314046,"comment_status":"close","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\/07\/Joe-Biden.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Sheriffs Sue Biden Over ICE Restrictions, Plummeting Deportations","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Joe-Biden.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Sheriffs Sue Biden Over ICE Restrictions, Plummeting Deportations","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583436","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=583436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}