American Military News by Liz George 6/8/2022
Late last month, President Joe Biden’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly issued a directive telling agents to “generally not” deport noncitizens with U.S. military service. The directive also advised against deporting the immediate family members of noncitizens with U.S. military service.
The May 23 order, issued by ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson, directed deportation agents to take into consideration U.S. military service as a “significant mitigating factor that weighs against” taking “civil immigration enforcement actions against them.”
Johnson also wrote that ICE officers and agents should “generally not initiate removal proceedings against noncitizens who are statutorily eligible for naturalization as a result of their military service…absent significant aggravating factors.”
The directive also said that ICE will “generally not” deport active-duty U.S. service members.
Johnson’s order defines military service as including “service in the National Guard or the active or reserve components of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard or Space Force.”
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https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/06/ice-agents-told-not-to-deport-us-military-troops-veterans-and-their-families/
