When Trump was president he made clear that he was going to arrest and deport criminal illegals, even more aggressively than his predecessor. There was a big outcry over this and now we learn via secret documents that Biden ended it as soon as he became president.
Specifically, what Biden ended was a immigration policy 287(g) that allowed Ice to work with local law enforcement to capture and deport criminal illegals.
Here’s more via Town Hall:
As President Joe Biden’s immigration crisis overwhelms the United States and wreaks havoc on the state’s resources, confidential documents suggest the president’s open border policies were intentional.
The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) filed a lawsuit against Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), claiming the agency halted the 287(g) program, which assists in the deportation of illegal migrant child rapists, attempted murderers, assailants, carjackers, and other known criminals.
In August 2023, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed that the government ended the program in January 2021— right after Biden entered office. However, the compromised agency gave no reason why the government did that.
The 287(g) program allows local law enforcement agencies to work closely with ICE to capture illegal aliens who have committed crimes. They were then able to turn the migrants over to federal officials for arrest and deportation.
“It is ironic that the Biden administration insists it is ‘the most transparent in history’ when, in reality, it has repeatedly attempted to change immigration laws without congressional authorization and then tried to hide the evidence of its misdeeds from the American public,” IRLI Director of Investigations Matt O’Brien said.
Flash forward to September 2023, the IRLI filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to ICE, requesting to obtain internal documents regarding the agency’s suspension of the 287(g) program. However, the government did not comply with a rule that they must reply within 20 days. ICE authorities have yet to respond.
Twenty-three agreements between local law enforcement and ICE were set to go into effect before Biden suspended the program. However, they were canceled after the president took office. Currently, ICE has 287(g) relationships with nearly 140 law enforcement organizations nationwide.
Town Hall titled their report “Secret Documents Reveal Biden’s Border Crisis Was An Intentional Policy”. While we all know this border crisis is absolutely intentional, all that these ‘secret documents’ prove is that Biden ended the deportation of criminal illegals. Which is terrible and, yes, that makes the border crisis worse. But I didn’t want to be too provocative in reporting this news.