China News Service, October 28. According to a report by the US Chinese website, on the 27th, US Secretary of Homeland Security Majorcas expanded the list of "sensitive locations" where law enforcement officials are not allowed to arrest immigrants.

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials and other immigration officials have long been barred from making arrests in schools and hospitals.

But Majorcas’s memo extended the concept to a wider range of social services, instructing all agencies of the Ministry of National Security to avoid arrests in domestic violence shelters, food banks, counseling agencies, and disaster response centers.

  The memorandum also prohibits arrests in churches, assemblies, demonstrations or marches.

  “We can complete our law enforcement tasks without denying or restricting individuals’ access to needed medical services, children’s education, displaced people’s access to food and shelter, believers’ access to places of worship, etc.” Majorcas wrote in the memo road.

  He emphasized that subordinate agencies need to consider the broader potential impact of arrests.

  "If we take action in emergency shelters, non-citizens, including children, may hesitate to go to the shelters and get the food and water, emergency medical care, or other humanitarian assistance they need.” Majorca Said.

  The memorandum is consistent with several recent orders from Majorcas and gives officials great discretion in how to conduct their work.

Majorcas wrote a memo in June giving immigration prosecutors more discretion and allowing them to abandon cases that they consider low priority.

  The Biden administration is also seeking more broadly to focus immigration enforcement efforts on those who it believes have a serious criminal record.

  Majorcas pointed out that the list of “enforcement restricted areas” is not exhaustive, and encourages officials to weigh “the importance of these activities to the well-being of people and their communities, and whether law enforcement actions will affect people’s access to these places and Willingness to accept or participate in basic services or activities."

  The memo also seeks to improve existing protections against arrests in schools. Majorcas wrote that arrests are also prohibited in playgrounds, daycare centers, and bus stops.

  The memorandum pointed out that an exception can be made when it involves national security, or when there is an imminent threat of violence, or when there is no other safe alternative location.

But officials need to seek approval before making arrests in sensitive locations.

  Earlier, Majorcas also suspended unannounced inspections in the workplace in order to shift the focus of law enforcement to employers who violated the law, rather than individual employees.