Correction, Please!

Doubletalk About the Surrender on the Southern Border

Item: The Washington Post, in its October 1 issue, reported that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had just “issued broad new directives to immigration officers … saying that the fact that someone is an undocumented immigrant ‘should not alone be the basis’ of a decision to detain and deport them from the United States.”

Item: An Associated Press dispatch dated September 30 said the “new rules” just issued by the Biden administration “require authorities to pursue only migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety.” 

The related press release from the Department of Homeland Security declared that its personnel “are to use their discretion and focus the Department’s enforcement resources in a more targeted way.”

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