By: Real America News Updated 25 Apr 2022, 04: 17 am EDT
This Monday 25 in April, the office Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) begins with a new policy that allows to stop the deportation of certain immigrants, because it sets priorities against certain non-citizens.
This after a memorandum signed on April 3 by Kerry Doyle, holder of the office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), where three priorities are marked for immigrants to be deported immediately.
The order follows the guidelines for the detention and persecution of immigrants of the secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, signed in September of 2022 and which entered into force last November.
That is, the officials of ICE should focus primarily on the following immigrants :
– Those who represent a threat to national security. – Non-citizens who may be a threat to public safety. – Those persons who are a threat to border security (those who entered to the US after November 1, 2020).
“It is expected that the OPLA attorneys exercise discretion at all stages of the enforcement process consistent with the factors and considerations set forth in Secretary Mayorkas’ guidance,” Doyle’s memo reads. “Whenever possible, decisions to exercise prosecutorial discretion should be made as soon as possible to best conserve prosecutorial resources.”
The memorandum also asks ICE prosecutors to consider the integral case of an immigrant, even if you do not have legal representation.
“These priorities are not intended to require or prohibit taking or maintaining a civil action for the application of the immigration law against any individual who is not a citizen or contravene any legal obligation”, indicates Doyle’s memorandum. “Rather, OPLA attorneys are expected to focus their limited efforts and resources consistent with the law and ICE’s important national security, public safety, and border security mission.”