Trump’s DHS took a key step against immigrants who were allowed in the controversial Biden amnesty program

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to review the amnesty status of immigrants brought in under the Biden administration’s dramatic humanitarian amnesty expansion, which opens the door to faster immigration removal. Country.

In an internal memo signed Thursday and obtained by Fox News Digital, DHS Secretary Benjamin Huffman outlined his move this week to adopt expedited removal restrictions, which would allow recently arrived immigrants who do not seek asylum or be quickly removed. Failure to meet the first level. The power can now be used anywhere for immigrants in the United States for a period of less than two years.

The new memo says that under those expanded powers, any immigrant that DHS knows will be expedited removal but does not have their case reviewed and “consider when exercising your enforcement discretion to apply for expedited removal.” The note was first reported by New York Times.

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“This may include steps to terminate any ongoing removal proceedings and/or any amnesty status,” it says.

For any immigrant granted amnesty under the Trump administration’s suspended, modified or terminated policy, officers can decide whether to enter removal proceedings and “review the alien’s amnesty status using your enforcement.” Determining whether leniency remains appropriate in light of a changed legal or factual situation.

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The memo also states that “an affirmative enforcement decision to compel no alien to enter, and a pardon, ‘shall not be deemed to constitute the admission of an alien.'”

This means they can be immigrants who have been granted amnesty at ports of entry after making an appointment through the CBP One app or who have been granted travel authorization for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV) through the amnesty process. Eligible for removal. The administration has launched amnesty programs for citizens from Ukraine and Afghanistan.

About 1.5 million immigrants have been granted entry under CBP One and CHNV, and both amnesty channels were closed on President Donald Trump’s first day in office. The Biden administration has said the expanded “legal pathways” are part of efforts to reduce illegal crossings, but Republicans have accused the administration of abusing its limited amnesty authority and allowing in immigrants who should not have entered legally.

Huffman’s memo follows a memo earlier this week ordering a review of the amnesty. The memo suggests the law requires the authority to be used “on a case-by-case basis,” which Republican critics say the administration has abused. It emphasizes that a pardon is a “limited exercise of authority, applicable only in a very narrow set of circumstances.”

It also says it has been “repeatedly abused by the executive branch in unconstitutional ways over the past several decades.”

“Most importantly, the amnesty law disallows classification programs that presumptively qualify aliens based on some broadly applicable criteria,” he says.

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The note leads. (ICE) officials And Customs and Border Protection will compile a list of amnesty-related guidelines, policies, and procedures, review them, and develop a plan to eliminate those that do not comply with the law.

The latest memo is that the administration is taking a number of steps against illegal immigration, including sending troops to the border, ending refugee camps, building a border wall, and launching a massive deportation campaign.

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ICE arrested more than 530 illegal immigrants last Thursday as agents across the U.S. focused on public safety threats, but officials said no one was off the table if they entered the country illegally.