Biden’s Border Betrayal: Criminal Aliens in America

Chairman Cornyn, Ranking Member Padilla, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss criminal deportations.

To address the issues raised by the committee, I have structured my written testimony to first, explain the source of the immigration power in the United States; second, to outline the criminal grounds of removal; third, to describe the laws governing immigration investigations, stops, and arrests; fourth, to delineate the statutes governing detention under the Immigration and Nationality Act; fifth, to explain the standards for due process in the removal process; sixth, to discuss immigration enforcement under the second Trump administration; and seventh, to analyze so-called “sanctuary” policies and their impacts.