A Practical Immigration Decarceration Approach for the New Biden Administration

With the advent of a new administration comes the opportunity for radically re-imagining what might be possible, a chance to envision an alternative drastically different from the present. In the midst of a pandemic, at a time when fundamental norms are broadly being reconsidered, the Biden administration is presented with just such an opportunity. Currently, there are 14,715 individuals being held in immigration detention in the United States. This is the lowest number of immigrant detainees in the U.S. in the past 20 years.