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Dear John,
We analyzed the data—and found that ICE failed to live up to its own guidelines on immigration enforcement priorities.
“Enforcement priorities” are nothing new. Both Democratic and Republican administrations have set their own guidelines to determine which immigrants should be a priority for apprehension and removal. The Biden administration directed ICE officers to focus on people deemed national security, border security, or public safety threats.
But newly analyzed government data from 2021 exposes the discrepancy between ICE’s actions and its own guidelines. The information—released in a new interactive report [[link removed]] by the American Immigration Council and our partners Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Mijente Support Committee—highlights the importance of data collection and calls for greater oversight of ICE's enforcement activities.
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The data demonstrates that ICE agents took enforcement actions against thousands of people who did not fall under the enforcement priority categories, instead labeling them under a “other” priority category that was not defined in the guidelines.
Some of the report’s highlights include:
*
Actions
taken
under
the
“other”
category
accounted
for
approximately
one-third
of
all
enforcement
activities.



*
ICE
supervisors
approved
officers’
requests
to
take
enforcement
actions
against
individuals
who
were
not
a
priority
under
the
guidelines
roughly
90%
of
the
time.



*
Places
like
New
York
City
and
Chicago
exhibited
higher
shares
of
enforcement
actions
falling
under
the
“other”
priority.


Considering these findings and the Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing DHS to reinstitute its enforcement priorities, the Biden administration should carefully examine how ICE executes these guidelines and how to implement humane and generous prosecutorial discretion going forward.
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