Byron York's Daily Memo: Biden's quiet immigration move

BIDEN'S QUIET IMMIGRATION MOVE. Last week the Biden administration took another step in its drive to ease the way for illegal border crossers to stay in the United States. Hardly anyone noticed.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would no longer impose fines on people who are in the United States illegally, who have been ordered by a judge to leave the country, and who refuse to go. (The announcement called them "noncitizens who fail to depart the U.S.") Mayorkas also announced that he would work with the Treasury Department to cancel the debts of those were fined under the Trump administration.

"There is no indication that these penalties promoted compliance with noncitizens' departure obligations," Mayorkas said in a statement. "We can enforce our immigration laws without resorting to ineffective and unnecessary punitive measures."