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Federal immigration authorities will be allowed to arrest and carry out enforcement actions in or near places such as churches and schools, marking a departure from a long-standing policy of avoiding so-called sensitive areas.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamin Huffman announced in a statement the end of two directives that gave authorities more authority over whether to carry out enforcement actions and eliminated legal recourse for immigrants seeking to enter the United States. .
“Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to evade arrest. The Trump administration will not tie the hands of our nation’s brave law enforcement, instead trusting them to use common sense. “,” the statement reads.
This is an important example of how enforcement under the new Trump administration will differ from the Biden administration.
In 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement instituted a policy prohibiting arrests of its agents in sensitive areas. The Biden administration has issued similar guidelines. Immigrant advocates share concerns that stripping the policy would stoke fear in immigrant communities, keep children out of school and keep people from receiving hospital treatment. He claims to do so.
The second directive includes phasing out parole programs that allowed certain immigrants to temporarily live and work in the United States. Republicans have repeatedly argued that the Biden administration abused the parole system by expanding it to multiple nationalities. The statement did not specify which programs would be phased out, but said programs would be reinstated “on a case-by-case basis.”
“The Biden-Harris Administration abused the Humanitarian Parole Program to indiscriminately admit 1.5 million immigrants into our country. All of this stopped on the first day of the Trump Administration. will return to its original purpose of considering immigration on a case-by-case basis,” the statement said.
