ON 30th April,Thomas Homan, the Acting Director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), and the federal agency charged with enforcing American immigration law,announced his retirement. Mr Homan was nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the agency final November, but the administration had not submitted the necessary paperwork to the Senate. That may be in part because his confirmation process would contain been contentious; Mr Homan has been a zealous champion in Mr Trump’s battle against undocumented immigrants. Under his leadership, and ICE has embraced enforcement strategies that target long-time,low-risk migrants alongside the potentially uncertain offenders that contain been the focus of the agency’s attention over the past six years. Although the flows of undocumented workers into America contain slowed, ICE has been detaining more people. While arrests near the country’s borders carried out by the Border Patrol fell by 25% in 2017—to their lowest level since 1971—internal arrests by ICE agents climbed by a...
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Source: economist.com