Massachusetts Sanctuary Policies Freed Hundreds of Criminal Aliens in 10-Week Period
By Jessica M. Vaughan on July 13, 2018
A report prepared by ICE's Boston field office for the staff of the Massachusetts governor illustrates the nature of ICE's criminal alien caseload in that state, and reveals the public safety problems created by court-imposed and locally adopted sanctuary policies. According to the report, over a 10-week period in the spring of 2018, 456 deportable criminal aliens were arrested in Massachusetts for a wide variety of state crimes. However, ICE was able to get custody of only about half of these criminal aliens, either because local agencies did not honor ICE's detainers or otherwise cooperate with ICE, or because the local agency released the criminal aliens before ICE could issue a detainer. The report provides several chilling examples of offenders who were freed by local authorities, including some who had committed horrific crimes, and including some who were released in Lawrence, Mass., a sanctuary city that has drawn attention for its role as a hub for opioid distribution in New England.
https://cis.org/Vaughan/Massachusetts-Sanctuary-Policies-Freed-Hundreds-Criminal-Aliens-10Week-Period
