With immigration and customs clearances already at traditionally low levels, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas released a memo calling on ICE agents to deport even fewer illegal immigrants convicted of criminal activities in the United States.
“If a non-citizen poses an existing risk to public protection, we do not deserve to be decided through transparent lines or categories,” Mayorkas’ note said. “Some other people convicted of a crime but who do not pose a risk to the public protection and who have a circle of relatives in the United States could possibly stay,” Mayorkas told the Washington Post.
So, for example, an illegal immigrant convicted of driving, reckless driving, or driving without a license could remain under the Biden administration’s new policy if that illegal immigrant had young people living in the United States.
Mayorkas had already issued a memo in February ordering ICE to prioritize the deportation of immigrants who pose a risk to national security or public safety.
The new additional memo weakens ICE’s deportation powers by providing more coverage to illegal immigrants with “mitigating factors,” adding “if they arrived at a young age or have an intellectual disorder, and whether their deportation would be for their families in the United States. “
This resolution to allow even more illegal criminal immigrants to remain in the United States comes as the Biden administration faces excessive strain from the radical left of open borders to allow as many migrants as imaginable to cross the southern border illegally.