What Is ‘Shocking’ to J.D. Vance Should Shock – and Anger – You, Too
‘Many of these violent criminals – we knew their addresses, we knew their names’
By Andrew R. Arthur on February 1, 2025
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Vice President J.D. Vance appeared on Fox News on January 29 and made a simple yet profound point about the aliens whom ICE is now actively arresting: “What is shocking to me is that many of these violent criminals — we knew their addresses, we knew their names. We just needed to send somebody to go to their house and get them the hell out of the country.” It should shock — and anger — all law-abiding people who pay their taxes and care about their neighbors and their own personal safety.
A Brief Recap of Biden-Harris Enforcement Restrictions. Throughout the Biden-Harris administration, I wrote extensively about the restrictions it had placed on immigration enforcement agents, and ICE officers in particular.
Here’s a brief recap in case you’ve forgotten.
As soon as President Biden was sworn in on January 20, 2021, Acting DHS Secretary David Pekoske issued a memo that (1) placed a 100-day hold on nearly all removals and (2) limited immigration enforcement to three specified “priorities”: spies, terrorists, and other threats to national security; aliens who entered illegally on or after November 1, 2020; and aliens convicted of aggravated felonies (as defined in section 101(a)(43) of the Immigration and Nationality Act or “INA”).
But not all aggravated felons — only criminal aliens convicted of aggravated felonies and released after the date of that memo, and who were “determined pose a threat to public safety”, were subject to arrest, detention, and prosecution. I guess the rest could just take a breather.
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