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ICE Acting Director and CBP Acting Commissioner Issue Memo on Civil Immigration Enforcement Actions In or Near Courthouses

4/27/21 AILA Doc. No. 21042737. Removal & Relief

ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson and Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller issued a memo to ICE and CBP personnel pertaining to the limited circumstances in which civil immigration enforcement actions may be carried out in or near a courthouse. This policy supersedes an ICE directive issued in 2018.

According to a DHS press statement, a civil immigration enforcement action may be taken in or near a courthouse only in the following limited instances: “(1) it involves a national security matter, (2) there is an imminent risk of death, violence, or physical harm to any person, (3) it involves hot pursuit of an individual who poses a threat to public safety, or (4) there is an imminent risk of destruction of evidence material to a criminal case. The interim guidance also makes clear that civil immigration enforcement is permitted against public safety threats in the absence of hot pursuit where necessary and with prior approval.”

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Cite as AILA Doc. No. 21042737.

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