Illegal immigrants who are convicted of assault or driving while intoxicated are among those who wouldn’t be deported under new guidelines from the Biden administration, the White House confirmed Monday.
“The priority for the enforcement of immigration law will be on those who are posing a national security threat, of course a public safety threat, and on recent arrivals. Nobody is saying that DUIs or assault are acceptable behavior, and those arrested for such activity should be tried and sentenced as appropriate by local law enforcement. But we are talking about the prioritization of who is going to be deported from the country,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
