Immigrant Arrest Targets Left to Officers With Biden Memo Nixed

US authorities enforcing federal immigration laws will spend the foreseeable future doing their jobs without clear guidance on who’s worth arresting.

A federal court scrapped the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, and the Supreme Court last week declined to revive the guidelines, at least for now. The justices will review the case later this year.

The 2021 policy under President Joe Biden directed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to focus their limited resources on detaining and deporting immigrants who threaten public safety, national security, or border security. ICE routinely sets arrest priorities, while leaving some discretion to individual officers. ...