Lawsuit: Biden’s ‘Sanctuary Country’ Policy Freeing Illegal Alien Convicts into American Communities
Illegal alien convicts are being released, or have already been released, directly into American communities from state prisons thanks to President Joe Biden’s “sanctuary country” orders that are preventing most arrests and deportations, a lawsuit reveals.
In February, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued orders that instruct Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents not to pursue illegal aliens for arrest and deportation unless they have been recently convicted of aggravated felonies against Americans.
For example, illegal aliens arrested or charged with rape, murder, sexual abuse of a child, and child pornography would not be eligible for arrest by ICE agents because they have not been convicted of the crimes.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s sanctuary country orders, revealing that already illegal alien convicts in state prisons are being released into American communities because ICE agents can no longer detain and deport them.
Moody named seven illegal alien convicts in the case — many of whom have been convicted of burglary, cocaine trafficking, grand theft auto, heroin trafficking, credit card fraud, money laundering, and other crimes.
The cases can be viewed in full here:
Despite notices by the Florida Department of Corrections to ICE about the illegal alien convicts’ upcoming releases, ICE agents were forced to reply saying they would be unable to take custody because of Biden’s sanctuary orders.
As a result, illegal alien convicts Alejandro Falcon Luis Reyes and Dzevad Husejnovic have already been released into Florida communities rather than being turned over to ICE agents for detainment and deportation.
Other illegal alien convicts named in the lawsuit — including Jose Gomez, Loveson Pierre, Donavan Mott, and Wanto Jerome — are set to be released into communities this month, June, or November.
“The Biden administration’s reckless policy of refusing to do their jobs and deport criminals places all those gains and Floridians’ public safety at risk,” Moody said in a statement.
“Until President Biden’s inauguration, presidents of both parties detained and deported criminals,” Moody continued. “This is a radical shift that places Floridians and our law enforcement officers in greater danger, and that is why I filed suit.”
In Pasco County, Florida, alone, the lawsuit states that ICE agents have been unable to take custody of three illegal aliens who were convicted of crimes such as domestic violence, violating a restraining order, and a warrant for an accused sexual predator.
Moody, in asking for a preliminary injunction on Biden’s sanctuary country orders, joins Arizona and Montana Attorneys General Mark Brnovich and Austin Knudsen, who are also suing Biden, arguing that the policies are a violation of federal immigration law.
As Breitbart News reported this week, Biden’s sanctuary country orders have prompted ICE detention of illegal aliens to hit the lowest level in the agency’s history with less than 14,000 detainees in custody. Likewise, deportations have been cut by 53 percent in his first month.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The case number is 8:21-cv-00541.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Sen. Cotton: Biden’s Not Deploying FEMA to Stop Illegals, But to ‘Expedite Them, Wave Them in Even Faster’
By Craig Bannister | March 15, 2021 | 4:40pm EDT
The Biden administration isn’t sending the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to the southwest border in order to secure it, but to help and encourage illegal aliens to relocate to the U.S. even faster, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Monday.
“They’re deploying FEMA to expedite” illegal immigration, Sen. Cotton told Fox News:
“They're not deploying FEMA to secure the border, to try to finish the wall, or to stop those migrants from crossing. They're deploying FEMA to expedite them, to wave them in even faster and give them a bus ticket and a plane ticket and send them wherever they want to go in the United States.
“That is the Biden border crisis."
Sen. Cotton was responding to comments House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made to ABC earlier in the day, in which she claimed that Biden “inherited a broken system at the border.”
"At no point in that rambling, incoherent answer did Nancy Pelosi even come close to expressing a rational thought about what's happening at the border,” Sen. Cotton said. “What they inherited from the Trump administration was a border that was closed. We were building a wall and we were turning away all migrants who had no right to cross into our country.”
Noting that border crossing have increased every month since the election, Sen. Cotton attributed the current border crisis to “Joe Biden's promises of amnesty and open borders and free health care for illegals during the campaign.”
Pelosi appeared to prove Cotton’s point Sunday, when she told ABC that FEMA is going to the border in order “to help facilitate” the transfer of illegal alien children “into family homes”:
"I'm so pleased that the president, as a temporary measure, has sent FEMA to the border in order to help facilitate the children going from one — the 72-hour issue into where they are cared for as they are transferred into family homes or homes that are safe for them to be.”
As Biden Touts His Stimulus Plan, No Comment on Worsening Border Crisis
(CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki would not say on Monday if or when President Joe Biden plans to visit the overrun Southwest border: "I don't have any trips to preview for you at this point in time. If we do, we will certainly preview them," she said.
But Biden, along with his wife Jill, Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug are making time this week to travel to different states to plug Biden's cash-in-your-pocket, pork-filled stimulus plan.
In his remarks on Monday, Biden did not mention what his administration calls a "challenge" at the border. But Psaki told reporters, "We recognize this is a problem. We're focused on addressing it."
A reporter asked Psaki why Biden isn't taking time to "go down to the border."
"Well, I would say that his focus is on developing solutions, pushing his team, encouraging his team to develop solutions that will expedite processing at the border, that will open more facilities, that will ensure kids are treated with humanity and also treated safely, and that's his focus," Psaki said. "And so that's where he's putting his--his efforts on immigration."
To handle the unprecedented influx of teenagers and children, the Biden administration plans to house some 3,000 teenage boys -- recent undocumented arrivals to this country -- in the downtown Dallas convention center until they can be united with relatives or sponsors.
According to the Associated Press: "The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center will be used for up to 90 days beginning as early as this week, according to written notification sent to members of the Dallas City Council on Monday. Federal agencies will use the facility to house boys ages 15 to 17, according to the memo, which describes the soon-to-open site as a 'decompression center.'"
According to the AP, the Department of Health and Human Services also plans to shelter teenage immigrants at a converted camp for oilfield workers in Midland, Texas.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Border Patrol is operating an overcrowded tent encampment in Donna, Texas for more than 1,000 children and teenagers awaiting transfer to HHS custody. It's so crowded, some are forced to sleep on the ground, press reports said.
"Border agents are apprehending more than 400 children a day on average, far more than the number of children that HHS is processing and releasing to sponsors," the AP reported.
At Monday's briefing, Psaki once again blamed the Trump administration for leaving Biden "a dismantled and unworkable system." (But not an overwhelmed system, after Trump took steps to discourage migration.)
"So our focus here is on solutions." Psaki said the Biden administration is returning to "full capacity" -- opening more shelters -- to speed up the transfer of children out of Border Patrol facilities. "That's an important step," she said.
In addition, the administration is embedding HHS and refugee resettlement staff with CBP, "which will allow government to more quickly ID, vet, confirm sponsors and family members of the unaccompanied minors and will lead to quicker placement."
The administration dispatched FEMA to the border this past weekend to "receive, shelter, and transfer unaccompanied children who make the dangerous journey to the U.S. southwest border."
"The president is very focused on expediting what's happening at the border at every step in the process," Psaki said.
And finally, the Biden administration has taken steps to encourage families and sponsors to come forward despite their illegal status. "And we've is seen this as an issue, where family members or even sponsor families are worried that this will mean they will be tracked," Psaki said.
"So, we recognize this is a problem," Psaki said, referring to the border crisis. "We're focused on addressing it...And we're continuing to evaluate what additional steps can be taken to address the situation at the border."
Mixed message: Don't come, but if you do...
A reporter asked Psaki if the Biden administration is now moving beyond its message of "now is not the time to come" to a message of we'll shelter you and transfer you as quickly as possible.
"No, we are--we are--we are doing both and it's a complicated problem, no doubt about it," Psaki responded.
"We are sending the message clearly in the region, now is not the time to come, but also we want to ensure that people are treated with humanity who are children, who are unaccompanied children. That's who we are as a country and so we are doing both."
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