ICE Interior Detentions Drop Like a Rock
While the disaster at the border is almost definitely going to get worse
By Andrew R. Arthur on July 10, 2021
A review of ICE detention statistics for FY 2021 reveals that the agency’s detention of aliens who were arrested by its officers in the interior of the United States is low and falling quickly, even as overall ICE detentions are holding fairly steady. That’s the natural consequence of the disaster unfolding at the Southwest border and ICE’s new non-enforcement regime under the Biden administration, but the statistics require some explanation to understand just how bad they are.
ICE is responsible for enforcing the immigration laws in the interior of the United States. That includes not just removals, but also the questioning of suspected removable aliens, their arrest, detention, and prosecution.
While Border Patrol and its agency, CBP, generally enforce the immigration laws at the border, Border Patrol agents and CBP officers are not assigned the duty of “detaining” aliens even the aliens they apprehend, per se.
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