Immigration Enforcement on the Honor System | National Review

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : At the first hearing, Mayorkas said the rate of such people reporting to ICE was "high," and two weeks later he told lawmakers it was "very, very high."
60% : This is essentially immigration enforcement by the honor system.
52% : And, in fact, Mayorkas told senators that "individuals who do not appear are a priority of ours for apprehension in the service of border security."
50% : Dinan finally got the number out of ICE.
48% : This might prompt one to ask, how many of these people actually show up and turn themselves in to ICE?
42% : ICE deportations from the interior of the country have dropped like a rock, and only about 6 percent of those detained by ICE in the interior were held for immigration charges alone, as would be the case for the no-shows.
40% : When illegal aliens are apprehended at the southern border, they are usually issued an NTA, and so if they don't appear for the hearing, they can be ordered deported in absentia.
39% : But DHS did report the number of illegals who've turned themselves in to ICE -- 3,446.
35% : So, has ICE been ordered to track down and arrest the thousands of illegals who did not report in, or was that just another lie by the secretary?
27% : Interestingly, while the Biden administration has prohibited ICE from even questioning virtually all illegal aliens, it has said those who entered after November 1, 2020, are priorities for arrest and deportation.
24% : In other words, ICE agents are not allowed to arrest even people in that tiny sliver of the illegal population the Biden administration supposedly considers to be legitimate targets for enforcement.

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