Apr 28, 2021
Stephen Dinan joins Andy Parks with an update on the Real ID delay, as well as a roundup of all the other big immigration stories of the week. President Biden will nominate Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, a Trump critic who cut some cooperative ties with ICE, as the new director of the immigration enforcement agency. Biden now has named nominees for the three immigration agencies at Homeland Security, tapping Trump critics for all of them. Mayorkas also nudged the country’s courthouses into sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, ordering ICE and Border Patrol agents to stop arresting people at the facilities unless national security is at risk or there are overwhelming public safety reasons.