Biden's administration ordered to end arrests of illegal workers in the USA - ForumDaily
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Biden's administration ordered an end to the arrests of illegal workers in the United States

The Biden administration has instructed ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service) to stop mass raids on workplaces, reports Forbes.

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ICE will end the mass arrests of illegal immigrants in factories, warehouses and other workplaces, the head of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mallorcas said on October 12, in the latest move by ICE to narrow its scope and abandon the strict immigration rules of the Donald Trump presidency.

In a notice to ICE, Mallorcas said "massive workplace operations" are ineffective in stopping employers who exploit illegal immigrants and prevent workers from reporting labor violations.

The Department of Homeland Security says it plans to focus on investigating exploitation and human trafficking allegations and wants more immigrant workers to feel comfortable cooperating with these investigations.

According to the memo, Mallorcas gave ICE and other immigration agencies 60 days to develop new policies that would encourage workers to report problems with labor laws. Such a policy could include granting temporary exemptions from immigration controls to victims and witnesses.

“The use of massive operations to catch immigrants in the workplace, sometimes resulting in hundreds of workers being arrested at once, did not focus on the most pernicious aspect of unauthorized employment in our country: exploitative employers,” Mayorkas wrote.

Donald Trump has stepped up ICE raids on workplaces during his presidency as part of his administration's strict approach to immigration law.

In one day in 2019, ICE arrested nearly 700 immigrants who allegedly worked illegally at multiple sites in Mississippi.

This approach completely changed the orientation of the era of 44th US President Barack Obama to persecute employers who exploit illegal immigrants or use them "as a business model."

The Biden administration has rewritten many ICE programs in recent months.

The agency has directed staff to focus more narrowly on arresting and deporting immigrants who recently entered the country illegally or pose a threat to public safety, a dramatic change from the Trump administration, which had designated all undocumented immigrants as targets for arrest.

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ICE has also pledged to avoid immigration activities in courthouses or Covid-19 vaccination clinics, and it plans to end the deportation of many victims and witnesses of crime, the new program, the administration said, will encourage immigrants to report crimes and get vaccinated.

ICE is changing its tactics while the U.S. Border Patrol, a separate agency, is reporting a sharp rise in the number of migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Monthly border arrests have doubled since Biden came to power, and the White House blames the trend on poverty and violence in Central America, but some critics believe Biden's abandonment of Trump's tough immigration policies prompted migrants to cross the border.

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Most of the migrants arrested at the southern border this year were quickly expelled from the United States in line with pandemic-era policies, and ICE says people who illegally entered the United States after November 2020 are still a priority for arrest.

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