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Misperceptions About ICE Enforcement Under Trump Warp Biden's Immigration Promises
It was actually less harsh under Trump than during all but two years of Obama
By Andrew R. Arthur on January 15, 2021

With the inauguration just days away, it's time to assess how the new Biden administration will handle immigration enforcement. Fortunately, the former vice president has made his plans clear, both in his public statements and in two documents: his campaign website page "Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants"; and the "Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations". None received much attention during the campaign, but then neither did immigration generally. They are based in part however on misperceptions that immigration enforcement under the outgoing Trump administration was particularly harsh. Respectfully, those misperceptions warp Biden's policies.
Bases of the Misperceptions

Those misperceptions were driven by the media during the Trump administration, which often focused on human interest stories about aliens who were wrenched from their families by ICE, or on crying children who were apprehended at the border by CBP. Rarely if ever, however, was there any context.

In part, they were propounded by the president's political opponents. Former Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) referred to ICE as a "fascist" organization in a 2018 Democratic debate. "Former" because he lost the election to now Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), or "AOC". AOC has called on ICE to be abolished, because of its enforcement efforts under the Trump administration.

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