ICE Agents Told Not to Arrest, Deport Illegal Alien Sex Offenders

by John Binder

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been told not to arrest and deport certain illegal alien sex offenders, Senate Republicans said this week in congressional testimony.

During a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and James Lankford (R-OK) detailed two cases where ICE agents said they were told by top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials not to arrest and deport convicted illegal alien sex offenders.

“‘It’s absolutely not true that ICE officers have been told not to arrest people,’ that’s what you said earlier today. That astounds me … ICE officers have asked me to ask you about the instructions your guidance has given them not to arrest individuals,” Hawley said:

For instance, the National ICE Council, that’s the ICE union, has asked me to ask you — because they can’t get answers from you so they’re asking me to do it — why ICE officers who have requested permission to go after an illegal alien who is convicted of sexual assault of a minor under 14 years of age were denied the ability to go and arrest this person. [Emphasis added]

full story at https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/28/hawley-ice-mayorkas-sex-offenders/