Is the Biden Administration Hiding Behind the Privacy Act on Immigration?
What 76 Saudis and a load of alien criminals have in common — Democracy Dies in Darkness
By Andrew R. Arthur on March 4, 2021
Two seemingly unrelated stories — one about ICE locking a Twitter feed identifying criminal aliens, the other reporting that the State Department is barring 76 unidentified Saudis in response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — may, on closer analysis, have a common darker theme: a possible attempt by the Biden administration to keep the public in the dark on the implications of its immigration policies by hiding behind the Privacy Act.
With respect to the former story, the Washington Times explained on March 2 that ICE had started a Twitter feed (@ICEAlerts) in 2013 publicizing identifying information of criminal aliens who had been released under local sanctuary policies.
The paper explained: "In both the Obama and Trump administrations, ICE's position was that sanctuary jurisdictions were a danger, shielding people with criminal records from being turned over for deportation."
https://cis.org/Arthur/Biden-Administration-Hiding-Behind-Privacy-Act-Immigration
