Political and Legislative
ICE Defies President Biden and Deports Hundreds of People
President Joe Biden is continuing to unravel the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies but has been unable to stop the deportation of hundreds, including a woman who witnessed the 2019 anti-Latino mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart store.
Biden went into his presidency carrying the weight of the record deportations that occurred under former President Barack Obama and a mandate from progressive supporters to do things differently.
An early Biden executive order placing a 100-day moratorium on deportations until an enforcement review could be done was suspended by a federal judge in response to a Texas lawsuit. But the ruling did not require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to schedule the deportations.
