Biden cancels Trump Program that Targeted Sex Offenders Living in U.S. Illegally

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Biden cancels Trump Program that Targeted Sex Offenders Living in U.S. Illegally

Human Events Staff | Feb 23, 2021 | Fresh Ink | 21







Biden has made it clear that his number one mission as president is to undo everything the Trump administration accomplished over the last four years.
His newest cancellation simply does not make sense.
Biden’s administration recently cancelled Operation Talon, a Trump administration program aimed at removing convicted sex offenders living in the United States illegally.
Though the program seems to be something everyone should support, it clearly isn’t. Why would anyone want sex offenders to remain in the country?
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a coalition of 18 state attorneys general to urge Biden to reverse the cancellation, according to ABC 4 News.
“We’re working hard to fight human trafficking and sex crimes in South Carolina and allowing convicted sex offenders who are here illegally to remain in our country makes absolutely no sense,” Wilson said. “These trafficking and sex crimes are repugnant to human decency generally and to children specifically,” he added.
The letter, directed to Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Acting Director of ICE Tae Johnson, pointed out the problems with this cancellation. The attorneys general argued that canceling Operation Talon could encourage sexual predators to attack.
“The United States’ population of illegal immigrants includes disturbingly large numbers of criminals with prior convictions for sexual crimes,” the letter reads. “According to data collected by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, during the period from October 2014 to May 2018 ICE arrested 19,572 illegal aliens with criminal convictions for whom the most serious prior conviction was a conviction for a sex-related offense.”
“Meanwhile, an increasing number of illegal aliens are entering the United States after having been previously convicted of sexual offenses,” it continues. “The cancellation of [Operation Talon] effectively broadcasts to the world that the United States is now a sanctuary jurisdiction for sexual predators. This message creates a perverse incentive for foreign sexual predators to seek to enter the United States illegally and assault more victims, both in the process of unlawful migration and after they arrive. It will also broadcast the message to other criminal aliens who have committed other offenses that any kind of robust enforcement against them is unlikely.”
The letter begs perhaps the most important question: “If the United States will not remove even convicted sex offenders, whom will it remove?”
In addition to South Carolina, the state attorneys general that signed on to the letter include: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
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Fact check: Decision to postpone Operation Talon was made by ICE and not Biden administration, DHS says

Reuters
MON MAR 1, 2021 / 3:33 PM EST

Redirect Notice

A month into U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration, posts circulated on social media claiming that the new president had canceled Operation Talon, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initiative aimed at deporting sex offenders living in the United States illegally.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Reuters the operation was not canceled but postponed, and the logistical decision to do so was made by ICE operators, not the president.


Examples of posts making this claim can be found here , here and here .


Some posts, calling Biden “pedojoe” and #BidenPhile ( here , here ) speak to tenets of the sprawling QAnon conspiracy theory, whose followers hold that former President Donald Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of child-sex predators that includes prominent Democrats, Hollywood elites and “deep state” allies (here).

Many of the posts include a link to an article on a website called Human Events with the headline “Biden cancels Trump’s ‘Operation Talon’ Program that Targeted Sex Offenders Living in U.S. Illegally” (here).


Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported here that ICE officials had “canceled Operation Talon, a nationwide operation targeting sex offenders subject to deportation that had been planned in the final weeks of the Trump administration.”


A senior ICE official, however, reportedly told The Post that “the Biden administration had nothing to do with that decision. Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, the official said they had not heard about the operation, but that it was possible that career staffers had planned it and set it aside while awaiting new instructions from the Biden team.”


An official from DHS told Reuters via email that Operation Talon was not cancelled, but postponed, and that the logistical decision to delay the schedule was made by operator-level officers, not the Biden administration or DHS leadership. (ICE is an agency operating under DHS.)


The DHS representative explained that Operation Talon is part of a larger and longstanding initiative known as Operation SOAR (“Sex Offender Alien Removal”), which is still ongoing (here).


As reported here by Charleston, South Carolina’s WCIV ABC News 4, a coalition of 18 state attorneys general signed a letter “urging Biden's administration to reverse their cancellation of Operation Talon, which focuses on removing convicted sex offenders living illegally in the U.S.”


The letter, written by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and available here&from_embed , states that the “ill-devised decision” to “cancel” Operation Talon “threatens to empower sexual predators to victimize women and children in America, and to exacerbate the tragic crises of sexual assault and sex trafficking among migrant and immigrant communities.”


Robert Kittle, Communications Director for South Carolina office of the Attorney General Alan Wilson told Reuters they stood by their press release www.scag.gov/archives/42044 that claims Biden’s administration cancelled the operation. When asked about reports that the operation was postponed by operator-level officers, Kittle told Reuters, “Regardless of who made the decision, the letter from the attorneys general is asking President Biden to reverse the decision, since it is his administration.”


The White House did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment.

 

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It's not canceled, it's simply postponed....

 

[Kwame Coltrane]

We posting Qanon articles from 6 months ago? I dont even fuck with Biden like that but damn

 

[Bedroom Bully]

This CAC was discredited real quick. Where are the other crackers that will co-sign this bullshit? 3….2….1