The Biden Administration, for all practical purposes, is abolishing immigration law enforcement, says Andrew Arthur who writes for the Center for Immigration Studies. He charges that ignoring laws in this fashion subverts representative government. Arthur writes that:
“When DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued his September 30 memo, ‘Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law,’ it was the latest step in an eight-month effort by the Biden administration to dismantle immigration enforcement. . . .
“Incredibly — and in my opinion, despicably — such non-enforcement restrictions are what Mayorkas is placing on CBP and ICE officers and agents. Here is how he puts it: ‘The fact that an individual is a removable [alien] should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them.’
“That is reprehensible. In this Republic, government’s power comes from the consent of the governed — that is, the citizens of the United States. This distinguishes the United States from monarchies, where the monarch holds complete power and government action is taken in the name of the crown.”
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