Tuesday’s action is part of the Biden administration’s efforts to narrow the scope of who can be arrested and detained by U.S. immigration officials.
- Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday directed U.S. immigration authorities to stop mass worksite arrests of undocumented immigrants.
- He also said that enforcement efforts should focus on holding “unscrupulous” employers accountable.
- Mayorkas outlined new enforcement priorities that aim to target employers that exploit unauthorized immigrants. Such employers often pay substandard wages, subject immigrants to unsafe working conditions and facilitate human trafficking and child exploitation, he said.
- He instructed immigration agency officials to develop policies within the next 60 days that carry out the change in enforcement priorities and deliver “more severe” consequences to exploitative employers.
- “The deployment of mass worksite operations, sometimes resulting in the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of workers, was not focused on the most pernicious aspect of our country’s unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers,” Mayorkas wrote in a memo to several immigration agency officials.
SOURCE: CNBC
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