{"id":23669,"date":"2020-09-28T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23669"},"modified":"2020-09-28T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T20:43:44","slug":"ice-local-cooperation-criminal-aliens-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/09\/28\/ice-local-cooperation-criminal-aliens-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Wanted: More Jailers to Keep Criminal Aliens Off Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Foreign nationals charged with sexual battery, \u201clewd and lascivious molestation\u201d and sexual misconduct with a minor were kept behind bars last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/ice-publishes-monthly-report-enforcement-actions-due-cooperative-agreements-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">thanks to alert local law-enforcement officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exercising authority through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/287g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">287(g)<\/a> agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allows police agencies that have had special training from federal immigration enforcement officers to identify criminal aliens in their custody and hold them for up to 48 hours after their sentence ends with ICE detainers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nnumber of local law-enforcement agencies in the 287(g) program has increased\nfrom 36 when President Donald Trump took office to 142 today. That\u2019s the good\nnews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/07\/28\/criminal-illegal-aliens-287g-program-increase-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR<\/a> noted earlier this year, it remains a paltry percentage of the 17,000 local jurisdictions across the country. With <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/09\/03\/sanctuary-counties-growth-trend-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">sanctuary cities<\/a> swelling to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/pressroom\/press-kits\/sanctuary-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">more than 500<\/a>, criminal aliens continue to slip through the cracks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jail doors have been wide open in the sanctuary state of California, especially in \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/la-jails-refuse-to-turn-25000-criminal-illegal-immigrants-over-to-ice\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County<\/a> this year as the sheriff&#8217;s department there refused to honor more than 25,000 federal detainer requests for illegal aliens in its custody. Showing how such aliens are helped to evade removal from the U.S., ICE pointed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2020\/09\/27\/sanctuary-los-angeles-frees-illegal-aliens-charged-murder-sex-crimes\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Salvadoran national<\/a> who was released into the community <em>after<\/em> he was found guilty of\u00a0homicide, robbery and making terrorist threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, 287(g)-certified\nofficers kept some egregiously bad actors off the streets. ICE highlighted\nthree cases in which local jailers blocked releases last month:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The\nJacksonville (Fla.) Sheriff\u2019s Office encountered a citizen of Trinidad and\nTobago sentenced to 12 years in prison for capital sexual battery and lewd and\nlascivious molestation, and held him with an immigration detainer. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The\nLexington (S.C.) County Sheriff\u2019s Office encountered a citizen of Guatemala\ncharged with kidnapping and sex\/criminal sexual conduct with a minor under 11\nyears old, and detained him. The man had re-entered the U.S. after having been\npreviously removed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The\nMontgomery County (Texas) Sheriff\u2019s Office encountered a Mexican citizen\ncharged with murder\/homicide, and placed an immigration hold on him. The man\nentered the U.S. on an unknown date and location.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Detaining dangerous\nindividuals and working to keep them off the streets of America is a crucial\nfunction that assists ICE. Imagine the good that could be accomplished if more\nlocal law-enforcement agencies trained up and seriously committed to upholding\nthis country\u2019s immigration laws as part of their peacekeeping duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign nationals charged with sexual battery, \u201clewd and lascivious molestation\u201d and sexual misconduct with a minor were kept behind bars last month, thanks to alert local law-enforcement officers. Exercising authority through 287(g) agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allows police agencies that have had special training from federal immigration enforcement officers to identify<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/09\/28\/ice-local-cooperation-criminal-aliens-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[1768,520,1524,47],"yst_prominent_words":[2019,2071,2691,10009,1918,1963,10011,10010,2252,9435,10007,4185,10008,10006,2566,10012,4180,10005,10004,1939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23670,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669\/revisions\/23670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23669"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}