Posted on 04/07/2021 7:20:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he’s preparing to take on sanctuary cities that refuse to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he wants to see more illegal immigrants face criminal prosecution for jumping the border.
He also rejected abolishing or splitting up ICE, rejecting calls from some in President Biden’s political base to eliminate the government’s deportation agents altogether.
Mr. Mayorkas revealed the hard-line stances last week during a virtual town hall forum with ICE employees. The Washington Times has reviewed notes of the conversation, in which Mr. Mayorkas said he’s working on a new set of deportation guidelines to govern how and when officers can arrest and attempt to deport illegal immigrants.
Pressed by ICE employees worried about public resistance to the agency’s work, Mr. Mayorkas said ICE has a “noble mission.”
“I’m 100% opposed to the abolition of ICE,” he told the employees. “It is the opposite of what I think needs to occur. I think we need to strengthen our policies and practices and communicate more effectively what we do and why we do it.”
In perhaps his most striking comments, Mr. Mayorkas said he thought more illegal immigrants should be prosecuted criminally. Generally, illegal immigrants are handled under administrative law, with the punishment removal. But entering the U.S. without permission is a misdemeanor under Title 8 Section 1325, and reentering the country after being ousted is a felony under Title 8 Section 1326.
“I see cases now where we apprehend and remove individuals that I think need to be prosecuted criminally,” he said.
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Oh, man. Best laugh of the day!
He is now a short timer.
Fig leafs for the Bush League Republicans to vote for amnesty.
If he is being honest and true, he will be looking for another jobs real soon......
?Biden is a sock puppet for those who now want to steal the winning ideas of Trump but didn’t want to give Trump credit for his policies.
Is this “tell the crowd what they want to hear?”
If he’s fired we’ll know he’s going against the White House.
But I think he’s doing exactly what the White House (Biden) is telling him to do. The Biden admin will say one thing publicly — to keep the lunatic left-wing base happy — and secretly tell DHS to do the opposite. They know they have a disaster at the border.
Well, if he’s fired it may just be to cover the truth — to make it look like he went against the grain.
As posted on the other thread:
LMAO!!!
Sometimes, reality just jumps up and takes a big old bite of insane fantasy liberalism’s azz....BIG TIME.
Watch what he does, not what he says.
Mayorkas is a filthy lying Dimmocommie. I wouldn’t trust him to take my garbage out to the curb.
I’m from Missouri
Good points....
I wonder how long it will be until he meets a fatal accident.
Yep. Triangulation.
Internal polling must be pretty bad. No wonder they are extending the DC police state.
Lies like Biden. Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do. If any ICE or DHS agent voted for this administration they deserve what’s coming to them (and it pains me to say that).
Yeah, right. Head fake, at best.
He gorn...
He did NOT kill himself next week...................
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