According to The Washington Post, ICE will not allow illegal aliens to seek bonds while detained.
In other words, an end to the “catch and release” policy.
In a July 8 memo, Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told officers that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years. Lawyers say the policy will apply to millions of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few decades, including under the Biden administration.In the past, immigrants residing in the U.S. interior generally have been allowed to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge. But Lyons wrote that the Trump administration’s departments of Homeland Security and Justice had “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and determined that such immigrants “may not be released from ICE custody.” In rare exceptions immigrants may be released on parole, but that decision will be up to an immigration officer, not a judge, he wrote.The provision is based on a section of immigration law that says unauthorized immigrants “shall be detained” after their arrest, but that has historically applied to those who recently crossed the border and not longtime residents.
The Washington Post attempted to use feels to trick readers into hating the new policy. I have to share it before I continue:
Immigration lawyers say the new ICE policy is similar to a position that several immigration judges in Tacoma, Washington, have espoused in recent years, denying hearings to anyone who crossed the border illegally.The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle filed a lawsuit in March on behalf of detainees challenging the policy, arguing that their refusal to consider a bond hearing violated the immigrants’ rights.The original plaintiff in the case, Ramon Rodriguez Vazquez, has lived in Washington state since 2009, works as a farmer and is the “proud grandfather” of 10 U.S. citizens, court records show. His eight siblings are U.S. citizens who live in California.He also owns his home, where ICE officers arrested him in February for being in the United States without permission. In April, a federal judge in Washington found that he has “no criminal history in the United States or anywhere else in the world” and ordered immigration officers to give him a bond hearing before a judge. A judge denied him bond and he has since returned to Mexico, his lawyer said.
OK, um, so Vazquez has eight siblings who are U.S. citizens, and you mean to tell me that since 2009, he couldn’t even apply or start the process to gain U.S. citizenship?!
*bangs head on desk*
I researched the immigration process and found that the cost to initiate the citizenship process ranges from $380 to $760. According to one site, the process to become a citizen in 5.5 months. Yes, I know delays happen and the government often doesn’t work on time, so I imagine it could take longer.
Anyway!
ICE has had to release illegal aliens because of a lack of space.
However, the “big, beautiful bill” allocates “$45 billion over the next four years to lock up” illegal aliens “for civil deportation proceedings.
The Trump administration aims to increase ICE’s detention capacity to over 100,000 beds.
It also helps that the Trump administration has secured the border.
Earlier this month, Border Czar Tom Homan said the Border Patrol only encountered 6,070 illegal aliens in June.
The numbers are way down, so I don’t even think ICE needs that many beds!
Then again, considering the number of people who came in under former President Joe Biden, ICE might need all those beds.
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