The Epoch Times An Ohio federal judge partially blocked the Biden administration’s mandate to limit the scope of deportation to certain groups of immigrants, thereby siding with the three Republican-led states of Ohio, Montana, and Arizona that had mounted the legal challenge against the mandate.
In September 2021, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, had issued a memo to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), asking its officers to narrow their focus on arresting immigrants who pose a threat to public safety or national security as well as immigrants who illegally crossed the American border recently. This contradicted the policies under the Trump administration which allowed ICE officers a broader latitude when it came to arresting and deporting illegal immigrants.
