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The 3 types of undocumented people detained by ICE who would be deported despite the moratorium announced by Biden

Judge Dana Sabraw maintains a temporary halt on certain deportations.

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He Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a memo that clarifies who are the undocumented persons detained by immigration authorities who will not be released or will continue to be subject to deportation despite the new order announced by the president Joe Biden for a 100-day hiatus that went into effect on Friday.

The three types of immigrants who will not be saved from deportations

On the list are migrants who arrived at the border after November 1, 2020.

Other immigrants who would be removed from the country are those who represent a risk to public safety, such as those prosecuted for terrorism; and those convicted of serious crimes.

The new provisions contained in the document were sent by the acting secretary of the DHS, David pekoske, this Wednesday to the heads of all relevant immigration agencies.

The new guidelines focus on educating immigration officials on the approach to arrests and deportations in the wake of the moratorium announced Wednesday.

According to the report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS.org), in practice, this means that as of February 1, ICE must release criminal aliens and others in custody to whom none of the three applies. previous classifications even if they have a court order for removal and have exhausted all appeals. The moratorium would include undocumented persons convicted of domestic violence, sex crimes, driving under substances, theft resulting in the loss of less than $ 10,000, and many other crimes.

For its part, the Fox network reported this Friday that officials from the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE) in Texas they received an email the day before asking them to immediately stop all removals by “midnight today.”

The report makes no mention of the exceptions noted above.

Order to suspend deportations for 100 days

The measures that DHS has already begun to take in conjunction with other agencies such as ICE are in accordance with the president’s order regarding the 100-day suspension of deportations effective this Friday.

Following the Biden Administration’s measure, Texas Attorney General, Republican Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit against the federal government for acting arbitrarily by setting the 100-day hiatus without first consulting the state.

“The action [del gobierno] it violates the constitution, federal immigration laws and the contractual agreement between Texas and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, in English), ”says the lawsuit before the South Texas District Court cited by the agency Efe.

Paxton, who led and pushed for a petition for the US Supreme Court to block the certification of Biden’s presidential victory in the general election, is now demanding the lifting of the moratorium.

The attorney general called DHS’s action “capricious” and “ill-intentioned” by “not considering or analyzing the costs that this action will generate” for the state of Texas, bordering Mexico.

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