President Donald Trump of USA has scrapped a long-standing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy preventing the agency from arresting undocumented immigrants in sensitive places like schools, hospitals, and houses of worship, as well as at funerals, weddings and public demonstrations without supervisor approval.
The president rescinded the policy in his first day in office,
The is part of Trump’s plan to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history.”
The current policy has been in place since 2011 and has been respected to some extent by the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations.
With the new policy U.S. immigration and border officials will be able to arrest migrants at so-called “sensitive” locations.
Biden administration expanded the regulation, further restricting the authority’s powers.
“Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
“The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense.”
A second directive reinstates the ability for the U.S. to quickly deport any undocumented person arrested who is unable to prove they have been in the country for more than two years.
