A group of Texas sheriffs filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for preventing the arrest and deportation of criminal illegal immigrants.
Sheriff’s departments from five counties banded together with ICE employees to file a complaint in the Southern District of Texas on Thursday, accusing Biden and the Department of Homeland Security of disrupting local law enforcement by enticing criminals to illegally enter the country.
The suit came on the heels of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s failure to take custody of and deport illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in local jurisdictions due to the Biden admin’s policies.
In February, the acting ICE Director issued an internal memo that directed agency officials to only take custody of immigrants arrested locally that were known or suspected terrorists, members of a criminal gang, or convicted of a violent felony.
The suit is being helmed by former Kansas attorney general Kris Kobach. “The ICE officers involved in this case are absolutely astounded at what their superiors are asking them to do: releasing people charged with rape of a child, releasing people charged with dealing drugs and resisting arrest,” Kobach said.
“These are really serious criminals, and ICE is being ordered by the political leadership of the Biden administration to turn them loose,” he added.
Due to the policy change, sheriffs were forced to release criminal migrants into the local population, instead of relinquishing custody to ICE, which the lawsuit charges as a violation of the federal law that states all illegal immigrants must be detained when deportation proceedings have been initiated, regardless of their criminal history.
“The Biden administration policy stands in direct violation of not one, but three, different federal statutes,” Kobach stated. “The administration’s actions have forced ICE to stand down and have almost brought deportations to a halt. That has fueled the crisis at the border, encouraging more illegal immigration. It has also created an unbearable burden for local law enforcement in Texas.”
Deportations have hit a record low since the policy change went into effect, ICE agents have averaged only 2,300 arrests per month, a fifth of 2019’s monthly average.
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Retard joe and his token ho should be sued for back tracking on their oaths to uphold the constitution and law
Joe, Harris, Nancy, Chuck & all congressmen/women should be impeached or removed from office for this. I laugh at Nancy when she says she the Dems take their oath seriously. Yea, right.
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No they should be HUNG by the neck until DEAD.
YES, THEY ARE SO ANTI-AMERICAN WHY ARE THEY STILL IN OFFICE? PUT BUSH, THE SO-CALLED SQUAD, AND WATTERS IN THAT GROUP! A BUNCH OF LOSERS.
well tried. impeached, then investigated and find who is paying biden and his family, then tried again in a criminal complaint, then hung this include his wife and that usless son of his.
The Vatican, a foreign, hostile NATION that is at perpetual undeclared war with the USA is at the back of Biden, CATHOLIC TRAITOR.
Good luck with that. White House Lawyers will employ so much Latin to embroil the courts in technicalities, motions, delays and “National Security” restrictions, by the time this case comes to court, Numb Nuts will be long gone.
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IMPEACH ALL OF THEM. FROM BIDEN ON DOWN!