Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued a directive on Monday that rescinds guidelines that barred federal officers from arresting illegal immigrants at so-called sensitive places, including schools, churches, and food banks.
The guidelines were released in 2021 during the Biden administration. While churches and schools had been off-limits for immigration-related arrests since 2011, Biden administration officials expanded the list of prohibited places to other settings such as food banks, homeless shelters, and playgrounds.
“We can accomplish our enforcement mission without denying or limiting individuals’ access to needed medical care, children access to their schools, the displaced access to food and shelter, people of faith access to their places of worship, and more,” then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at the time….