Senator Charles E. Grassley Questions for the Record
Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Graham, and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the impacts of possible U.S. immigration enforcement under the incoming administration.
To address the issues raised by the committee, I have structured my written testimony to first, explain the source of the immigration power; second, to describe and delineate the inspection and admission process for aliens coming to the United States; third, to detail the state of border security prior to the Biden administration; fourth, to explain the Biden administration’s border policies and their impact on migrant releases; fifth, to assess the economic and public safety impacts of the Biden administration’s migrant releases; sixth, to estimate the current unauthorized population and ICE’s non-detained docket; seventh, to attempt to predict what the incoming administration’s immigration and deportation policies will be; eighth, to explain prior administrations’ interior enforcement guidelines and policies; ninth, to describe the impacts of the Biden administration’s enforcement guidelines; and tenth, to speculate on the impact of the (second) Trump administration’s immigration plans.