“Under normal administrations, whether it was the Obama administration, the Trump administration, the Bush administration, the Clinton administration, if a criminal alien was arrested by a local sheriff’s department, a police department, state troopers, state police, highway patrol, they were then flagged by ICE. Something called a detainer was issued. And when that person was released, whether they were bonded out by a judge, whether they were put on their own recognizance pending trial, or whether they completed the prison sentence, they were placed into ICE custody. … The Biden administration has stopped doing that in the vast majority of cases. So, all of those criminal offenders are now being released back into the U.S. population, back into your communities, back into your schools, back near the places where you live. The result of that is going to be massive amounts of recidivism. Innocent people are going to get hurt. Innocent people are going to get killed. Innocent people are going to suffer irreparable damage as a result of that decision.”
— Stephen Miller, adviser to former president Donald Trump, in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News, April 18, 2021
After four years in the White House as Trump’s immigration adviser, Miller is now on the outside looking in as President Biden winds down many of his policies.
Biden pledged to reverse Trump’s signature immigration controls such as the travel ban covering several majority-Muslim countries and the “Remain in Mexico” policy that turned away asylum-seekers from Central America, and to stop construction of Trump’s southern border barrier.
Biden also planned a 100-day moratorium on deportations, and although a federal judge ruled to stop the freeze, federal data as of mid-April show U.S. immigration officials have been taking into custody far fewer unauthorized migrants from the interior United States. Continue reading.