Tucker Carlson explains that ICE agents have been instructed in an official memo to “release them all, immediately,” despite the fact that Joe Biden’s memorandum didn’t specifically say that.
Following is a summary of a Breitbart article explaining the situation:
ICE agents have been ordered to release all detainees that they have in custody due to Joe Biden halting all deportations.
Tucker Carlson reported about a verified January 21 ICE memo that was sent to agents saying “Release them all, immediately,” but it is unclear if the memo was referring to the mass release of all 14,195 detainees in its custody, where 71.45 percent of them are convicted criminals or have pending criminal charges. The detainees are currently held in approximately 138 facilities across the United States.
[Note that would be (or “is” apparently) a catastrophe. I think people who are awaiting deportation in custody should still have been deported no matter what the new policy is, since potentially dangerous criminals presumably would have been given prison sentences in the U.S. if it was known that they would not have been deported. Very few people were actually being deported anyway, and usually only with very good reason.]
(Also another Breitbart article explains that Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said Joe Biden made America less safe within hours of being sworn-in on January 20 due to his executive orders ending the Trump “Remain in Mexico policy,” and stopping construction of the border wall. Morgan said he was amazed by how quickly Biden submitted the orders without even taking time to talk to experts in the border patrol about the impact of his decisions.)