(Breitbart) A plan by President Joe Biden, called an “extortion attempt,” would shield more criminal illegal aliens from deportation as data shows his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has drastically cut interior immigration enforcement.
Biden’s White House is threatening to cut deportations of even the most violent illegal alien convicts unless Congress approves billions in funding that passes through DHS before getting handed to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) helping facilitate illegal immigration.
RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), told Breitbart News that the threat from Biden is echoed by the establishment media with claims that DHS needs the billions in funding to enforce federal immigration law.
“This is nothing more than a misleading extortion attempt to prolong a self-inflicted invasion that has been compounded by the gutting of interior enforcement,” Hauman said. “Keep in mind this is an administration that sought to suspend all deportations for 100 days and proposed a mass amnesty on day one — efforts built upon through the issuance of radical policy memos.” [Emphasis added]
The claim, Hauman said, is false — noting that Congress gave DHS more money than the agency requested to fund more detention space for illegal aliens even as Biden had sought to slash detention space by 30 percent.
Likewise, the Senate package supported by Biden and crafted by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and Chris Murphy (D-CT), would, among other things, preserve DHS’s parole pipeline for illegal aliens into the United States interior and get work permits much more quickly to those released.
The accelerated work permits, in particular, would serve as a huge pull factor for more illegal immigration at the southern border, experts have told Breitbart News.
Some have suggested that DHS ought to be audited to get to the bottom of where Biden is using billions in taxpayer funding allocated to the agency by Congress even as he has cut deportations and interior immigration enforcement.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data analyzed by Center for Immigration Studies Director of Investigations Jon Feere finds that Biden has cut deportations of criminal illegal aliens by 60 percent in his first three years in office compared to former President Donald Trump’s first three years.
Chart via Center for Immigration Studies
Chart via Center for Immigration Studies
