The Biden Administration announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be reviewing the removals of veterans and military family members.

According to a 2019 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, about 250 veterans were either deported or placed in removal proceedings between 2013 and 2018.  When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers encounter a potentially deportable veteran, their own policies require them to take additional steps. The report found, however, that ICE did not consistently implement those policies and has not developed a policy to identify and document all military veterans it places in removal proceedings.