JUNE 26, 2023
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JUDICIAL WATCH
ICE Detainers for Illegal Immigrants in Local Jails Drop Sharply Under Biden
The Biden administration is not just shattering records for admitting unprecedented numbers of illegal immigrants through the southern border, new government figures indicate it is also allowing more criminal aliens to be released into American communities after they get discharged from local jails for state crimes. The latest data shows that the number of immigrant detainers sent by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to local police has fallen sharply since Joe Biden became president, which means illegal aliens arrested for local offenses are set free instead of getting turned over to federal authorities for deportation.
Under a federal-local partnership known as 287(g), local law enforcement agencies are supposed to notify ICE of jail inmates in the country illegally so they can be deported. Caving into the demands of influential open border groups, the Biden administration has drastically diminished the measure. Additionally, an increasing number of law enforcement agencies in cities and counties around the nation do not cooperate with the feds under sanctuary policies. Now it appears that local compliance is becoming less relevant because ICE, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is trending towards not filing detainers at all. A new report issued by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan data research center dedicated to studying the inner workings of the federal government, reveals that immigrant detainers sent to local law enforcement agencies declined considerably at the start of the Biden administration.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/ice-detainers-illegal-immigrants/
