Immigration advocates hope ICE priority shift will be start of real change

Name: Immigration advocates hopeful about ICE priority shift
Uploaded: 2021-02-09T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 68 h 36 min 40 s
Description: Immigrants and their advocates are holding out hope that the Biden administration will represent a stark change from the previous four years of strict enforcement.

David Cruz, Senior Correspondent | February 9, 2021 | Immigration

The agency's new enforcement priorities will be: national security, border security, public safety

With President Joe Biden in office, the letters and calls from immigration advocates are pouring in asking for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to release some detained clients and follow the agency’s new guidance to curb arrests and deportations.

But can the new rules force ICE agents to comply? Senior Correspondent David Cruz reports.

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David Cruz

Senior Correspondent

Senior Correspondent David Cruz is the moderator of Chat Box and Reporters Roundtable. He's been a member of the NJ Spotlight News team since 2011 and has been covering New Jersey's biggest stories for almost 30 years. He's been a reporter and moderator of public affairs programs on television, radio and digital platforms for WBGO and WNYC radio and is the former editor in chief of the Hudson Reporter Newspaper group.

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