Four immigration enforcement measures we can all agree on — even under Trump 

The news media has provided extensive, national coverage on polarizing immigration enforcement measures taking place under the Trump administration, such as border apprehensions and the escalation of ICE activities in the interior of the country. But it hasn’t provided much coverage of enforcement measures that might have bipartisan support. Here are four that should be celebrated — on both sides of the aisle.

Joint Task Force Alpha: Transnational human smuggling networks “not only seek to profit from the exploitation of migrants, but also routinely expose them to violence, injury, and even death,” according to the Office of the Attorney General. Between October 2020 and June 2021, the Department of Homeland Security rescued more than 4,000 migrants who had been abandoned by smugglers along the southwest border. And it found 250 migrants in 2020 who had died during their journey to the U.S.

On June 7, 2021, the Biden administration announced the establishment of Joint Task Force Alpha, which would use the investigative and prosecutorial resources of the Justice Department and Homeland Security to investigate and prosecute the “human smuggling and trafficking networks that exploit and endanger migrants to the United States from the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and from Mexico.”

The current administration has continued the Biden administration’s task force, and expanded it along maritime borders and the northern border with Canada.   

Since its creation in 2021, task force activities have resulted in more than 483 arrests, more than 436 convictions, and “substantial”........

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