ICE deports hundreds of immigrants including El Paso massacre survivor after judge blocks Biden freeze

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On 26 January, Texas attorney general and Trump ally Ken Paxton successfully sued to block the president’s 100-day moratorium on deportations; Trump-appointed federal judge Drew Tipton granted the attorney general a 14-day temporary restraining order. A whistle-blower complaint filed on Monday accuses the former president’s acting Homeland Security chief of obstructing the new administration’s immigration agenda by ceding ICE authority to a pro-Trump union. My community is tired of seeing our family members, our friends and our neighbors ripped from their homes.” Mr Biden’s DHS secretary Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas will inherit the agency and its law enforcement arms as the president introduces several new executive orders targeting immigration reform. On Tuesday, President Biden announced three additional executive orders targeting immigration policy, including the creation of a task force the begin the process of reuniting hundreds of families separated at the southern border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting migrants for “illegal entry”.