Thousands Released After Immigration Holds Denied
Photo Credit: APLocal Jails Refusing to Hold Illegal Immigrant Offenders, Forcing Feds to Track Them Down
By William La Jeunesse and Laura Prabucki.
Local police agencies across the country are frustrating efforts at the federal level to detain and deport criminal illegal immigrants, leaving immigration officials scrambling to track them down.
In the last nine months, 275 counties have refused to honor requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they be notified before releasing an illegal immigrant from custody.
In doing so, those jurisdictions have released some 9,000 with criminal records who otherwise would have been removed from the U.S.
In the past, these so-called “detainer requests” from ICE were routinely granted.
Now, however, the very counties that once turned over thousands of illegal immigrant felons to ICE are refusing — afraid of being sued for holding the wrong person or forced to renege by immigrant-friendly policies in Democrat-dominated districts.
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Thousands Released After Immigration Holds Denied
By The Associated Press.
Immigration officials say local authorities released thousands of immigrants from jails this year despite efforts to take them into federal custody, including more than 3,000 people with previous felony charges or convictions.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice says roughly 8,800 of the agency’s requests for local authorities to detain arrested immigrants for up to 48 additional hours until they are placed in federal custody were denied during the first eight months of the year.
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