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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt called on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday to end a policy allowing migrants to use civil immigration arrest warrants as identification at U.S. airports, accusing the department of a “willful disregard for the safety of the American people.”
“The idea that a federal law enforcement agency would look the other way as individuals openly admit – indeed provide documentation of the fact – that they are fugitives from American justice stretches and strains credulity,” Schmitt wrote in a letter to Mayorkas. “So egregious is this open and willful disregard for the rule of law and for the welfare of American citizens that I would not have believed it had not the TSA verified that it was true.”
TSA confirmed to Fox News on Friday that it is allowing the warrants, which represent civil immigration enforcement and are not criminal arrest warrants, as an alternative.
Schmitt noted that his state has brought several lawsuits against the Biden administration, including having former President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy reinstated. “Over the past 12 months, the state of Missouri has successfully challenged DHS’s illegal policies on matters of immigration and open borders,” he wrote.
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Eric Schmitt, Missouri attorney general, speaks during a news conference outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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He said the TSA policy “continues to erode the trust citizens once had for” Homeland Security.
He wrote that Missouri is the “Show-Me State” and suggested if the department doesn’t stop “ignoring the rule of law, turning a blind eye as hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens flood our borders and openly…
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