Biden Limits on Immigration Enforcement Are Much Worse than Even Obama's
By Andrew R. Arthur on February 15, 2021
Throughout most of its history, there were no restrictions on the ability of ICE agents and officers — and agents from the agency's predecessor, INS — to arrest, detain, prosecute, and deport removable aliens, and in particular criminals.
That changed, however, in March 2011, when then-ICE Director John Morton issued the "Morton memo".
The Morton memo contended that ICE only had resources to remove 400,000 aliens annually, and so it had to "prioritize" its immigration-enforcement efforts.
Pursuant to that memo, aliens who posed a danger to national security, recent entrants, those convicted of aggravated felonies, and most criminal aliens were priorities for removal, but that memo did not prevent ICE from arresting or deporting other removable aliens.
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