On Saturday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued its pushback against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">lawless</a> scourge of sanctuary cities — this time focusing upon the particularly recalcitrant government of Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s New York City.
ICE &#8220;served four immigration subpoenas Friday on the New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) requesting information on multiple illegal aliens who were criminally arrested in New York City, and yet under New York’s non-cooperation policies officials have refused to honor ICE detainers or even provide ICE with information about the release dates of criminal alien public safety threats,&#8221; the agency stated via <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-issues-subpoenas-obtain-information-refused-under-ny-sanctuary-policies">press release</a>. &#8220;Issuance of these immigration subpoenas was necessary because the NYDOC has continued to ignore ICE’s requests for information and cooperation.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE uses statutorily-authorized immigration subpoenas to obtain information as part of investigations regarding potential removable aliens,&#8221; the release continued. &#8220;ICE has not historically needed to use its lawful authority to issue these subpoenas to obtain information from other law enforcement agencies as most law enforcement agencies throughout the country willingly provide ICE with information regarding aliens arrested for crimes in the interest of public safety.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE is using every tool available to obtain information regarding the whereabouts and other relevant information regarding removable aliens from jurisdictions that chose to, or are unable to, cooperate with ICE,&#8221; the agency wrote, before providing details about the four criminal aliens — ranging from age 21 to 38 — about whom it recently sought information from NYDOC.
&#8220;Like any law enforcement agency, we are used to modifying our tactics as criminals shift their strategies; but it’s disheartening that we must change our practices and jump through so many hoops with partners who are restricted by sanctuary laws passed by politicians with a dangerous agenda,&#8221; lamented Henry Lucero, acting deputy executive associate director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, as quoted in the ICE press release.
Just yesterday, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-releases-list-of-9-violent-illegal-immigrants-freed-by-ny-sanctuary-policy-plus-6-more-who-could-be-released">reported</a> that ICE has also released a list of nine illegal aliens whom ICE claims have been &#8220;released in New York communities&#8221; due to the metropolis&#8217;s sanctuary policies. &#8220;ICE also named six additional illegal immigrants who may be released, some of whom have been charged with murder and child rape,&#8221; Berrien noted.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-illegal-immigrants-freed-by-new-york-citys-sanctuary-city">reported</a> by Fox News, acting ICE Director Matthew Albence &#8220;cited statistics saying that last year ICE lodged 7,526 detainers via its New York field office. Those individuals accounted for 17,873 criminal convictions and 6,500 criminal charges. He went on to say that those charges and convictions include over 200 homicides, over 500 robberies, over 1,000 sexual offenses, over 1,000 weapons offenses, and over 3,500 assaults. However, only about 10 detainers were honored by the city, officials said.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> last July, I argued that most sanctuary jurisdictions flagrantly violate federal law — and in particular, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>, which provides: &#8220;Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221; I opined:
<blockquote>It is true that the U.S. Supreme Court’s so-called “<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-supreme-court-reinforces-the-10th-amendment">anti-commandeering doctrine</a>,” most famously articulated in the 1992 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-543">New York v. United States</a> and the 1997 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1996/95-1478">Printz v. United States</a>, stands for the proposition that the federal government cannot forcibly “commandeer” state governments to help the federal government enforce federal law. As Justice Scalia <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZO.html">wrote in Printz</a>, “The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.”
But a plain reading of 8 U.S.C. § 1373(a) does not seem to countenance a violation of the anti-commandeering doctrine. Under § 1373(a), state and local officials are not coerced into “enforc[ing] a federal regulatory program.” Rather, under the text of the statute, all state and local officials are prohibited from doing is issuing a “restrict[ion] [upon the] sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.” Put simply, the issue at hand in § 1373(a) is not federal commandeering of state actors to enforce a federal program; rather, the issue is the prevention of state and local officials from openly defying and subverting federal law. And the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause plainly forbids the states from openly defying and subverting federal law. The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien.</blockquote>

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Investigators with multiple federal agencies are reportedly reviewing evidence of alleged crimes committed by far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that center around her marital history.
The Blaze reported that toward the end of last year, &#8220;the Department of Justice had assigned an FBI Special Agent in Charge, or SAC, to review <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/david-steinberg-tying-up-loose-threads-in-the-curious-case.php">Rep. Ilhan Omar&#8217;s apparent, astonishing spree of felonies</a> from 2009 to 2017.&#8221;
The Blaze noted that the &#8220;FBI SAC stated that the wide range of criminal activity suggested by the evidence against Rep. Omar may lead the FBI to expand the review to other federal departments&#8221; and that in recent weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Education inspector general have reportedly joined the investigation.
The Blaze&#8217;s report was authored by David Steinberg, who has extensively covered the criminal allegations against Omar for many months while at PJ Media.
The Blaze reported that ICE&#8217;s involvement in the investigation pertains to &#8220;questions about [Rep. Omar&#8217;s 2009 marriage],&#8221; which allegedly includes &#8220;eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy.&#8221;
The Department of Education inspector general is reportedly looking into whether Omar&#8217;s 2009 marriage to a British citizen was &#8220;an attempt to facilitate federal student loan fraud, or other fraud involving higher education.&#8221;
The Minnesota Star Tribune has <a href="http://www.startribune.com/new-documents-revisit-questions-about-rep-ilhan-omar-s-marriage/511681362/">reported</a> the following timeline of Omar&#8217;s marital history:
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<blockquote>1982: Ilhan Omar is born in Somalia, the youngest of seven children.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>1997: Omar, still a teenager, settles in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis after fleeing Somalia&#8217;s civil war with her family and spending four years in a refugee camp in Kenya.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2002: Omar, now 19, marries Ahmed Hirsi, 22, in their “faith tradition” in Minnesota, but they don&#8217;t legally marry.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2008: Omar and Hirsi, now the parents of two children, reach an “impasse in our life together” and divorce in their faith tradition.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2009: Omar, at 26, marries Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, 23, whom she identifies only as a “British citizen.” School records show he attended high school in St. Paul and studied art at North Dakota State University.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2011: Omar and Elmi end their relationship and divorce in their faith tradition, but do not legally divorce until 2017.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2012: Omar and Hirsi reconcile and have a third child together.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2014–15: Omar files joint tax returns with Hirsi, though they are not yet legally married; she remains legally married to Elmi.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2016: Omar, endorsed by the DFL over longtime incumbent Phyllis Kahn, is elected to the Minnesota House, becoming the first Somali-American, Muslim legislator in the United States. But her campaign is rocked by allegations in a Somali news forum and the conservative Power Line blog suggesting that Elmi is her brother and they married for unspecified immigration benefits.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2017: Omar is granted a legal divorce from Elmi.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>2018: Omar legally marries Hirsi and is elected to Congress.</blockquote>
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The Star Tribune&#8217;s report from last June stated that newly released &#8220;investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.&#8221;
Omar, who has repeatedly claimed that the allegations are baseless conspiracy theories, has refused to answer questions or turn over any documents to the <a href="https://apnews.com/cc2ccd70de56405098d2f259bf0e46c5">Associated Press</a> or the Star Tribune that could debunk what she claims is a conspiracy theory.

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Law enforcement in Cook County, Illinois, allowed more than 1,000 criminal illegal aliens to go free in Fiscal Year 2019, ignoring detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/cook-county-declined-more-1000-ice-detainers-fy19">press release</a> from ICE highlighted some of the illegal immigrants who were released from prison despite ICE lodging immigration detainers, including domestic abusers and an attempted murderer. One of the men who were released from Cook County law enforcement officials were rearrested without officials notifying ICE that they had been released. South African national Rasheed Abass, 50, was arrested in June 2019 for indecent exposure, released, and then arrested in July for assault. ICE placed detainers on him after each arrest but were ignored. Nicaraguan national Kennete Acevedo Ortiz (also known as Kennev Vasquest-Rugama), 28, was arrested three times in Fiscal Year 2019, once for driving under the influence, once for domestic violence, and a third time for failing to appear in court.
“The most concerning issue about working in an area that refuses to cooperate with ICE is not only that we do not know which criminal aliens are being released from custody, but the public doesn’t know either,” said Henry Lucero, ICE’s acting deputy executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations in the press release. “Because ICE does not have access to standard Illinois law enforcement databases, it’s difficult to accurately account for all the aliens who have been arrested, released and committed additional crimes. However, with the limited information ICE can verify, we know that police resources are being wasted, more people are being victimized, and it’s a matter of time until something more significant happens.”
ICE officials also listed the following offenders as being released or about to be released even after a detainer was lodged:
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<blockquote>On Dec. 3, 2018, ICE lodged a detainer with the Cook County Jail on Rokas Ablacinskas, a 22-year-old citizen of Lithuania, following his arrest for attempted murder, aggravated battery of a victim over the age of 60 and aggravated battery in a public place. Without notifying ICE, the Cook County Jail released Ablacinskas Sept. 17, 2019, and he remains at large in the community.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>On, Dec. 10, 2018, ICE lodged a detainer with the Cook County Jail on Isidro Ramirez-Hernandez, a 52-year-old citizen of Mexico, following his arrest for aggravated domestic battery and strangulation. Despite an active immigration detainer, the Cook County Jail released Ramirez-Hernandez March 18, 2019, and he remains at large in the community.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>On Aug. 10, 2019, ICE lodged a detainer with the Cook County Jail on Mahmoud Abu Maghli, a 27-year-old citizen of Jordan, following his arrest by the Burbank (Illinois) Police Department for recklessly discharging a firearm. He remains in the Cook County Jail where, under existing sanctuary laws, he will be released into the community.</blockquote>
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ICE detainers pertain to people who have been arrested and suspected by ICE of being removable aliens. The detainers merely request that law enforcement officials notify ICE when a criminal alien is being released and to maintain custody for short amount of time so that the agency can take the alien into custody.

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Political observers in the year 2020 know that, for the Democratic Party and the broader political Left alike, intersectionality often reigns supreme. For those still wondering what exactly &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; is, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro has produced a helpful explanatory video on the topic:
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&#8220;Intersectionality is a form of identity politics in which the value of your opinion depends on how many victim groups you belong to,&#8221; Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-what-intersectionality-jacob-airey">explained</a>. &#8220;At the bottom of the totem pole is the person everybody loves to hate: The straight, white male. And who’s at the top? Well, it’s very hard to say, because new groups claim victim status all the time. No one can keep track.&#8221;
Alas, it should come as no surprise that contemporary Democrats would rally around what is perhaps one of the most readily identifiable sub-identity groups boasting immense &#8220;intersectional&#8221; street credibility: The transgender illegal alien.
&#8220;House Democrats plan to call on a key immigration agency to release all transgender people who are currently being detained, arguing that the U.S. has failed to follow guidelines to protect individuals who face more perilous conditions in detention than other migrants,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">reported</a> yesterday.
The outlet then reported on the precise contents of the early copy of the letter it obtained. The letter will be sent to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Matthew Albence. Per <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">The Hill</a>, the letter reads, in relevant part:
<blockquote>We write to demand the release of all transgender people currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Transgender migrants and asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, solitary confinement, physical assault, and medical neglect. These inhumane conditions and systematic abuses are evidenced in countless reports and accounts by formally detained people.</blockquote>
According to the outlet, the letter cites research from left-wing organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, and the Center for American Progress in order to argue that &#8220;due to their gender identity, transgender migrants are more likely to face &#8216;the pervasive use of solitary confinement&#8217; and that they are &#8217;97 times more likely to be sexually victimized&#8217; compared to &#8216;their cis-gender and straight counterparts in detention.'&#8221;
The effort is being led by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), who TheBlaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/house-democrats-want-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">notes</a> is of the belief that ICE is actually required to release all transgender detainees. In order to advance that claim, the letter cites a 2015 ICE memo and the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s 2020 appropriations bill.
&#8220;Quigley&#8217;s office is working to get lawmakers&#8217; signatures on the letter and expects to send it to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and ICE Director Matt Albence later this week,&#8221; the Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-democrats-to-ask-ice-to-release-all-transgender-immigrants-in-custody">reports</a>.
The year 2019 was a busy year for ICE, especially over the first six months. Record numbers of illegal aliens seemed to flood over America&#8217;s porous southern border on a seemingly monthly basis, although the tide has stemmed over the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/month-decline-unauthorized-border-crossings-nearing-million/story?id=66134521">past few months</a>. As the 2020 election heats up, President Donald Trump is continuing to emphasize border security and immigration enforcement as key political priorities.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reportedly filing new claims with the immigration courts seeking to begin deportation proceedings against several people who fall under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, on the assumption that DACA will be allowed to expire without Congressional action.
<a href="https://wgntv.com/2019/12/28/ice-asking-courts-to-deport-daca-recipients/">The Chicago Tribune&#8217;s media wire</a> reports that ICE is &#8220;asking immigration courts to deport some young adult immigrants who have remained in the U.S. under a program known as DACA,&#8221; even though the program is still under active litigation and both sides have petitioned the United States Supreme Court to hear appeals related to the executive order, signed by former President Barack Obama and discontinued by President Donald Trump.
Information about ICE&#8217;s filings comes from immigration advocates whose clients are the subject of the deportation hearings.
&#8220;DACA recipients, while they’re supposed to be protected, we’re seeing they are actually being targeted in some cases,” one immigration rights activist told Tribune media, adding that he&#8217;s heard of DACA recipients being targeted for deportation hearings in at least three states though he did not provide the media outlet with proof of his claims.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/21/us/ice-reopening-dreamer-deportation-cases-invs/index.html">CNN reports</a> that &#8220;ICE has begun asking immigration courts to reopen administratively closed deportation cases against DACA recipients who continue to have no criminal record, or only a minor record. Immigration attorneys in Arizona confirmed at least 14 such cases being reopened since October, and CNN also found DACA recipients whose cases recently were reopened in Nevada and Missouri.&#8221;
So far, CNN found, DACA recipients have been warned that if DACA is allowed to expire, they should expect administrative proceedings, suspended when DACA was passed, to be reopened, but haven&#8217;t yet been asked to appear in court.
“There’s some fear, there’s anxiety,” the same activist added in his interview with the Tribune. “Obviously there’s a lot of unknown.”
DACA protects immigrants (commonly referred to as &#8220;Dreamers&#8221; because of the DREAM Act that gave rise to the idea of DACA) who were brought to the United States illegally by adults when they were minors and could not actively consent to breaking United States immigration laws, but it is an executive order with a sunset provision, meaning that DACA was never intended to provide limitless protections from deportation for those covered by the order. Former President Obama, ostensibly, authored and signed the order assuming that Congress would make the protections permanent &#8212; something that was discussed several times but never happened.
The Trump Administration &#8212; and President Trump himself &#8212; has said that he has no intention of re-upping the order, leaving Congress in charge of extending DACA protections, if they so choose. The Administration has not, however, said that they will actively pursue deportation against DACA recipients; they may be leaving that decision up to ICE.
Although ICE may be filing orders to begin deportation proceedings, it&#8217;s unlikely any immigration court will pursue those requests &#8212; at least while DACA is still under litigation and parties to such litigation are still pursuing appeals. The Supreme Court heard an appeal on DACA back in November 2019, over whether the Trump Administration properly ended the program. A decision from the Supreme Court on the issue isn&#8217;t expected until May or June of 2020.

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A Guatemalan woman who was convicted and sentenced to to 12 1/2 years in prison after a 2008 Minnesota crash in which four children aged 9 to 13 were killed, then was deported in 2016 after serving eight years of her sentence, was arrested by federal immigration officials who found she had reentered the United States.
Olga Franco del Cid, 35, was arrested at her home in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, on Tuesday, as <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7738899/Guatemalan-woman-deported-conviction-deadly-school-bus-crash-arrested-entering-US.html">The Daily Mail</a> reports. The <a href="http://www.startribune.com/guatemalan-who-killed-4-in-2008-cottonwood-minn-bus-crash-arrested/565550162/?refresh=true">Star-Tribune</a> reported of the 2008 accident:
<blockquote>Responders at the scene found Franco del Cid behind the steering wheel, her right foot wedged under a crumpled dashboard near the accelerator. Her attorneys argued that her boyfriend was the one driving the van and fled because he didn&#8217;t want to be deported to Mexico. They argued that he was thrown out of the van on impact, and Franco del Cid was thrown into the driver&#8217;s seat.</blockquote>
The Daily Mail added, “At least 10 people were hospitalized for injuries suffered when the minivan broadsided the school bus after turning right on a country road. The bus rolled on its side and crushed the hood and cab of a pickup truck.” As <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2008/02/20/school">MPR News</a> noted at the time, the pickup driver, James Hancock, said from his hospital bed to the Star Tribune, &#8220;I saw the maroon van run a stop sign; it blew over the railroad tracks and hit the bus, sending it sliding into me. The next thing I knew, they were hauling kids out and it was chaos.”
In the crash, which got national attention, Hunter Javens, 9, and his brother Jesse Javens were killed along with Emilee Olsen, 9, and Reed Stevens, 12, of Marshall, as <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2008/02/20/school">MPR News</a> noted. MPR added:
<blockquote>Emilee&#8217;s mother, Traci, is a physical education teacher at the school. Reed&#8217;s mother, Kandy, is a former teacher. Lakeview Schools Superintendent Sheldon Johnson read a message from Kandy Stevens. &#8220;She wants people to know that Reed was a young man who loved God, his country and his family,&#8221; said Johnson.  &#8220;And he also loved his football family.  We know that he is with the Lord, and we ask all parents to give their kids an extra hug, tonight and every night.&#8221;</blockquote>
As the<a href="https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/crime-and-courts/4792392-ICE-arrests-woman-involved-in-fatal-2016-Minnesota-school-bus-crash"> Duluth News Tribune</a> reported of Franco del Cid, &#8220;She was convicted on 24 separate charges, including four counts of criminal vehicular homicide, and sentenced to more than 12 years in prison &#8230; While she was in prison, Franco del Cid began corresponding with Jerome Harvieux, now 36 and living in Maple Grove. The couple married in 2009 and they have a child together, but Harvieux filed for divorce in October, according to court documents.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.marshallindependent.com/news/local-news/2018/02/illegal-immigrant-convicted-in-causing-crash-deported-in-2016/">The Marshall Independent</a> added, &#8220;During the trial, the defense argued that Franco del Cid’s then-boyfriend, Francisco Sangabriel Mendoza, was really driving the minivan that hit the school bus, and that the crash threw her toward the driver’s seat. Mendoza fled after the crash &#8230; The Pioneer Press reported that Franco del Cid’s marriage (to Harvieux) didn’t necessarily mean she could stay in the country — she would still go through a deportation hearing either during her sentence, or after it was complete.&#8221;
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On Monday, alerted that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had arrested roughly 250 students since January on immigration violations as part of a sting operation involving a fake university, actress Alyssa Milano, a fervent opponent of ICE, tweeted, &#8220;OH MY GOD. ICE has arrested about 250 students who were enrolled at a fake university set up by ICE to lure in students.”
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ICE has arrested about 250 students who were enrolled at a fake university set up by ICE to lure in students.<a href="https://t.co/2P8iZtnMGB">https://t.co/2P8iZtnMGB</a>
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Someone might alert Milano —a strident voice consistently ripping the Trump administration for its immigration policy — of one little fact: the University of Farmington in Michigan was created during the Obama Administration in 2015. The sting operation was code-named “Paper-Chase.” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190131014820/https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2019/01/30/federal-agents-used-fake-michigan-university-to-find-undocumented-immigrants/2722791002/">The Detroit News</a> reported in January 2019 that eight &#8220;recruiters&#8221; for the university who hailed from India were charged with visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit. Those eight recruiters allegedly made more than $250,000 from the university, in lieu of recruiting students.
Prosecutors argued that the students enrolled in the university so they could retain their student-visa status and stay in the U.S. despite being aware &#8220;that they would not attend any actual classes, earn credits or make academic progress towards an actual degree,” as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/us/farmington-university-arrests-ice.html">The New York Times</a> reported. The Times said the recruiters were “accused of enlisting at least 600 people to enroll in the school.”
Matthew Schneider, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, stated in a news release, “We are all aware that international students can be a valuable asset to our country. But as this case shows, the well-intended international student visa program can also be exploited and abused.” Former federal prosecutor Peter Henning stated, &#8220;It’s creative and it’s not entrapment. The government can put out the bait but it’s up to the defendants to fall for it.”
In a sentencing memo for one of the recruiters, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Helms wrote, &#8220;Their true intent could not be clearer. While &#8216;enrolled&#8217; at the University, one hundred percent of the foreign citizen students never spent a single second in a classroom. If it were truly about obtaining an education, the University would not have been able to attract anyone, because it had no teachers, classes, or educational services.&#8221;
The Times added, “Each of the foreign citizens who ‘enrolled’ and made ‘tuition’ payments to the University knew that they would not attend any actual classes, earn credits, or make academic progress toward an actual degree in a particular field of study,” the indictments said, adding that the students knew that ‘discretion should be used when discussing the program with others.’”
<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/">The Detroit Free Press</a> reported:
<blockquote>Out of the approximately 250 students arrested on administrative charges, &#8220;nearly 80% were granted voluntary departure and departed the United States,&#8221; the Detroit office of ICE&#8217;s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) told the Free Press in a statement Tuesday. Out of the remaining 20%, about half of them have received a final order of removal; some of them were ordered removed by an immigration judge, and others &#8220;were given an expedited removal by U.S. Customs and Border Protection,&#8221; said HSI Detroit. The remaining 10% &#8220;have either filed for some sort of relief or are contesting their removals with Executive Office for Immigration Review,&#8221; said HSI Detroit.</blockquote>

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien who was previously jailed for alleged rape and other criminal charges.
Jesus Romero-Bisos was released by the Philadelphia Police Department on October 17 even though ICE had placed an immigration detainer. Philadelphia police had arrested Romer-Bisos “or the criminal offenses of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, unlawful contact with a minor/sex offense, statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault without consent, sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minors, indecent assault of a person less than 13 years old, reckless endangerment of another person and harassment,” ICE <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-captures-illegal-alien-released-philadelphia-custody-despite-detainer-criminal">reported</a>.
Romero-Bisos was also charged “in a second scheme of criminal conduct with unlawful restraint with serious bodily injury, indecent assault without consent, simple assault and harassment.
Despite these charges and the immigration detainer, the Philadelphia police department released Romero-Bisos. The police department told The Daily Wire that all inquiries regarding Romero-Bisos’ release were being referred to the office of Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney. The mayor’s office did not immediately return a Daily Wire inquiry.
Three weeks later, on November 8, deportation officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) found Romero-Bisos and arrested him. He is currently in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings.
“ICE is willing to work with local law enforcement at all times,” said ICE Philadelphia Field Office Director Simona Flores-Lund. “ICE shares the city’s ultimate objective to protect public safety and national security while simultaneously preserving the critical community-police bond. Unfortunately, elected officials are putting politics before the law, and most significantly before the safety of the communities they swore to serve.”
Philadelphia is a sanctuary city, meaning it won’t cooperate with federal immigration officials to deport illegal immigrants. As ICE explained, these policies put citizens at risk by allowing potentially dangerous individuals into the communities. The organization said that the lack of cooperation from local law enforcement increases “the likelihood that other individuals previously not targeted for arrest will be taken into ICE custody.”
This incident has occurred even though ICE field agents in Philadelphia arrested 45 illegal immigrants in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-offices-across-the-country-arrested-hundreds-of-criminal-illegal-immigrants-last-week">reported</a>, most of the illegal immigrants arrested had previous criminal histories, “including driving under the influence and sex-related crimes.”
“ERO deportation officers are committed to enforcing the immigration laws set forth by our legislators,” said Simona Flores-Lund, field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia at the time of the arrests. “Targeted operations like this reflect the vital public service that ERO officers do every day to protect the nation, we will continue to conduct similar operations, while seeking to ultimately remove criminal aliens with a final order of removal and other immigration fugitives who pose a threat to public safety.”
Many of the illegal immigrants arrested by ICE at the time had been released from prison despite detainers requested by federal immigration officials.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden brushed off mounting calls from within the Democratic Party to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday afternoon, noting that the agency can be reformed with proper leadership.
&#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t abolish ICE. We should reform the system. ICE is not the problem,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-knocks-left-wing-of-democratic-party-we-shouldnt-abolish-ice">told reporters</a> at a campaign stop in Concord, New Hampshire. &#8220;The policies behind ICE are the problem, and that is easy enough to fix if the president knows what he or she is doing.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s remarks come on the heels of a recently released immigration plan by his Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The proposal is a sweeping set of policy initiatives, which in addition to abolishing the immigration enforcement agency also imposes a moratorium on all deportations, grants complete welfare access to illegal immigrants, and accept no less than 50,000 individuals in the first year who are migrating to the United States because of climate change.
The plan was reportedly crafted in partnership with various illegal immigrants who are currently residing in the country and are shielded from deportation by former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
&#8220;My father came to America as a refugee without a nickel in his pocket, to escape widespread anti-Semitism, and find a better life,&#8221; Sanders said during the release of his proposal. &#8220;As the proud son of an immigrant, I know that my father&#8217;s story is the story of so many Americans today. When I am in the White House, we will stop the hatred towards our immigrant brothers and sisters, end family separation, and locking children up in cages.&#8221;
Biden, however, has been relatively vague on his immigration stances and has yet to release a detailed immigration platform. The presidential hopeful has called for comprehensive changes to the U.S. immigration system that would increase the current level of immigrants, legalize the status of DREAMers, and provide a pathway to citizenship for the illegal immigrants living in the United States that don&#8217;t have a criminal record and are employed.
During the second Democratic National Committee (DNC) primary debate, Biden revealed that he still opposed decriminalizing border crossings, stating that those seeking to immigrate &#8220;have to wait in line.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact of the matter is, you should be able to – if you cross the border illegally, you should be able to be sent back,&#8221; Biden said at the time. &#8220;It&#8217;s a crime.&#8221;
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who ended her bid for the presidency in August, was one of the first 2020 Democratic contenders to call for abolishing the agency. She received widespread backlash months earlier after saying multiple times that ICE needs to be abolished, but her comments came at a time when numerous other congressmen were advocating for the abolishment of the agency as well.
House Democrats introduced a bill in early July to abolish ICE, but after House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced he planned to bring the proposed bill to a vote, those same Democrats called it a &#8220;political stunt,&#8221; and vowed to vote against their own proposal.

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As of right now, most national head-to-head polls for the 2020 presidential general election show President Donald Trump losing to his Democratic Party presidential primary rivals. This trend generally holds, regardless of whether the nominee is any of the leading top three Democratic candidates: Former Vice President <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html">Joe Biden</a>, Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_warren-6251.html">Elizabeth Warren</a> (D-MA), or Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-6250.html">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT).
While the Trump campaign might be tempted to rest on its laurels and sneer at the polls based upon a look back at the perceived polling debacle that was the 2016 presidential election, such a move would be just as haughty as it is myopic. As Harry Enten&#8217;s <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-polling-error-behind-clinton/">article</a> from November 4, 2016 — that would be four days before the general election — presciently pointed out, in retrospect, polling from the 2016 election cycle was not actually irreconcilable with a Trump victory. Trump obviously trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls, but his victory was actually not outside the realm of polling feasibility — or even outside the realm of polling reasonableness.
As such, the 2020 Trump re-election campaign would be wise to focus on what it can do to win over a larger share of independent, moderate, and suburban voters. In doing so, the Trump campaign would be wise to look back to a much-ballyhooed part of Karl Rove&#8217;s 2004 blueprint for George W. Bush&#8217;s re-election: Specifically, that campaign&#8217;s ingenious focus on the &#8220;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/security-moms-bushs-secret-election-weapon-gl6jc8cxr7j">security mom</a>.&#8221; The mythical &#8220;security mom,&#8221; at the time, was symbolized by the proverbial suburban mother who was worried about revanchist Islamist terrorism and sought to protect her home and family against those who would seek to kill us.
Although some of the specific animating issues have changed over the past 15 years, there is tremendous potential this election cycle for Trump to deploy similar messaging and reach out to a similar sect of voters.
Violent crime in America, despite overall dramatically declining since the 1990s, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-in-defense-of-prosecutors">unfortunately spiked</a> over the past few years. Why isn&#8217;t Trump formally renouncing the <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20191004/he-was-released-early-from-prison-in-february-now-hes-wanted-for-murder-on-federal-hill">harrowing</a> First Step Act jailbreak law, the passage of which he apparently already <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-reportedly-regrets-passage-jailbreak-first-step-act-gullible-conservatives-supported/">regrets</a>, and doubling down on &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221;-style anti-crime messaging?
Left-wing Democrats are campaigning harder than ever on anti-Second Amendment, gun-grabbing policy proposals. Why isn&#8217;t Trump leading Republicans on a 2020 platform of cracking down on the gun felons that <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/decriminalization-delusion-14037.html">light-on-crime</a> jurisdictions like California seem <a href="https://calmatters.org/gun-violence/2019/10/felons-firearms-california-federal-charges-gun-control-newsom/">hellbent on unleashing</a> upon the general public?
The global jihad — as embodied both by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-josh-hammer">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, the mother&#8217;s milk of Sunni jihad, as well as more public-facing Islamist outfits like al-Qaeda and Islamic State — continues, 18 years after 9/11, to pose a threat to the U.S. homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump running on a platform of discussing not just the wall and border security, but also the arguably even more indispensable issue of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">interior visa enforcement</a>? What about the need to radically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-never-forget-911-we-need-rethink-how-we-josh-hammer">restructure our immigration policy</a> away from letting in largely unvetted populations of Middle Easterners?
Across the nation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-who-will-stand-for-the-forgotten-american">neo-Confederate</a> &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; jurisdictions employ anti-<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Supremacy Clause</a> erroneous legal &#8220;reasoning&#8221; to defy <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiHsv7v4LXjAhWTHM0KHZKMB7gQFjAAegQIAxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fuscode%2Ftext%2F8%2F1324&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EunpYa249SvA-oBwwFrS2">federal immigration law</a>, ignore ICE detainers on <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/another-illegal-alien-arrested-brutal-rape-notorious-sanctuary-montgomery-county/">violent criminal aliens</a>, and aid and abet the work of the transnational Mexican cartels that traffick drugs and criminals alike into the homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump proposing more aggressive policies to strip federal funding away from sanctuary jurisdictions and effectively message to suburban voters that the government will act to help prevent MS-13 thugs from terrorizing their neighborhoods?
There are a myriad other examples, to be sure. But to maximize its 2020 re-election chances, the Trump campaign ought to focus more intensively on appealing to moderates and suburban swing voters. In order to do so, there is no better platform than a safety and security agenda tailored to the very &#8220;security moms&#8221; that President Bush so effectively courted in 2004.

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Police in Chicago were warned not to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on issues of immigration.
The Chicago Police Department (CPD)sent a memo, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-dont-cooperate-dhs-immigration">obtained by Fox News</a>, to officers in late September telling them to wait for a supervisor to arrive before assisting DHS. Upon arrival, the supervisor will direct CPD officers to leave the scene, “if the request is to assist with an immigration arrest or detention. Fox News confirmed the authenticity of the memo but could not determine whether Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was behind the directive.
Several sources within the CPD told Fox that the new policy puts both departments at risk.
“See what happens when that happens and a DHS agent is injured because of a lack of response by CPD. Sickening what’s happening here,” one source told the outlet.
“You’ll not find a single real police officer that would refuse to assist another agency,” said another.
Chicago is one of at least 36 sanctuary cities in the United States that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within DHS. In addition to dozens of cities, whole counties and states are also considered to be sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.
A DHS spokesperson told Fox that the memo to Chicago police officers was dangerous.
“The Department of Homeland Security is deeply concerned with the dangerous anti-law enforcement direction given by the leadership of the Chicago Police Department. The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to protect the citizens of this country from dangerous criminals,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “Failing to support fellow law enforcement officers upon request for assistance not only places our heroic police officers in greater danger but keeps criminals on the streets and makes all of our communities less safe, specifically the great City of Chicago.”
The CPD told the outlet that law enforcement would assist a federal agent who is in danger but would not assist in the arrest. Instead, they will “advise and leave the scene.”
The new policy for CPD came around the same time that a Virginia police officer was suspended <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-officer-suspended-after-cooperating-with-ice">for cooperating with ICE</a>.
The officer was suspended after responding to a vehicle crash. During routine license checks, the officer discovered that one of the drivers had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear for a deportation hearing. The officer notified the ICE contact listed on the notification of the warrant, who was nearby. The officer then arrested the driver and turned them over to the ICE agent.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. said in <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/chief-roesslers-statement-on-officers-custodial-detention-and-ice-notification/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">a statement</a> that officer violated a department order requiring them to ignore such a notification unless the person in question is “being taken into custody for any other violation of law.” Roessler emphasized in his statement that officers are extensively trained on this distinction and that the suspended officer “deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.”
The arrested driver spent three hours in custody and was released.

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Singer Selena Gomez is &#8220;afraid&#8221; for the United States due to the ongoing illegal immigration crisis and hopes Americans will feel more empathy and compassion for illegal immigrants.
In an op-ed for <a href="https://time.com/5690070/selena-gomez-americas-immigration-crisis/">TIME</a>, the &#8220;Good for You&#8221; singer recalls her own family&#8217;s history of illegal immigration, starting when her aunt crossed the border in the 1970s — followed by her grandparents, who then bore her father in Texas.
&#8220;In 1992, I was born a U.S. citizen thanks to their bravery and sacrifice,&#8221; writes Gomez. &#8220;Over the past four decades, members of my family have worked hard to gain United States citizenship. Undocumented immigration is an issue I think about every day, and I never forget how blessed I am to have been born in this country thanks to my family and the grace of circumstance. But when I read the news headlines or see debates about immigration rage on social media, I feel afraid for those in similar situations. I feel afraid for my country.&#8221;
While Selena Gomez acknowledges immigration is a &#8220;divisive political issue,&#8221; the remainder of her essay focuses solely on the plight of the illegal immigrant — thereby neglecting the litany of Americans who have been negatively affected by an open southern border, from drugs trafficked to wages slashed.
&#8220;It is a human issue, affecting real people, dismantling real lives. How we deal with it speaks to our humanity, our empathy, our compassion. How we treat our fellow human beings defines who we are,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;I understand it’s flawed and that we need rules and regulations, but we also have to remember that our country was formed by people who came here from other countries. It’s time to listen to the people whose lives are being directly affected by immigration policies. It’s time to get to know the individuals whose complex stories have been reduced to basic headlines.&#8221;
Gomez goes on to write about her experience producing the documentary series &#8220;Living Undocumented,&#8221; which, again, did not fully explore the highly complex issue of illegal immigration and instead merely focuses &#8220;on eight immigrant families in the U.S. from different countries and backgrounds, all facing possible deportation.&#8221;
&#8220;I watched footage outlining their deeply personal journeys and I cried,&#8221; she cried. &#8220;It captured the shame, uncertainty, and fear I saw my own family struggle with. But it also captured the hope, optimism, and patriotism so many undocumented immigrants still hold in their hearts despite the hell they go through.&#8221;
After describing the individuals and their stories, Gomez expresses her concern by the way people are being treated in the United States. She makes this claim several months after she said the anti-abortion laws in Alabama and Georgia were &#8220;<a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/heres-how-selena-gomez-is-taking-a-stand-against-anti-abortion-laws.html/">deeply upsetting</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;To see what is happening right now in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and several other states in our country is not only deeply upsetting but seems that it can’t possibly be real in 2019. It’s no one’s business what a woman chooses to do with her body. End of story,&#8221; she wrote on her Instagram back in May.

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A police officer in Virginia was suspended late last month after reporting a potential illegal immigrant to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. released <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/chief-roesslers-statement-on-officers-custodial-detention-and-ice-notification/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">a statement</a> on Tuesday about the incident, which occurred on September 21. Roessler said the officer, who has not been named, was gathering details about a traffic accident when they discovered one of the driver’s involved did not have a Virginia Operator’s license. The officer obtained additional information from the driver to run a check with state DMV records. Upon doing so, the officer received a notification from ICE that the driver was wanted for failing to appear for a deportation hearing.
The officer contacted the ICE agent listed on the notification and was advised that they would arrive shortly. The officer then issued the driver a uniform summons for not having a license. The officer then detained the driver and handed them over to the ICE agent.
Roessler said that police officers are not to hand people over to ICE unless they are being arrested for another crime, citing FCPD General Order 601-Arrest procedures (VIII c. 5. 3.):
<blockquote>If the response reads “OUTSTANDING ADMINISTRATIVE WARRANT OF REMOVAL” and the individual is not in custody or being taken into custody for any other violation of law, officers shall not confirm the hit through LESC and shall not take the individual into custody based solely upon the IVF hit. The majority of such administrative warrants represent civil violations of immigration law.</blockquote>
Roessler also noted that police officers are trained extensively not to detain individuals “for administrative warrants” and said the FCPD has “no authority to enforce federal law.”
Roessler said the officer “deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.” ICE told the department that the driver was released with an ankle monitor after three hours in custody.
“When I learned of this event, I directed an immediate internal investigation to look at all factors in this matter to ensure that all are held accountable for this violation. Our county is one of the most diverse counties in the nation and no one should have the perception that FCPD is acting as a civil immigration agent for ICE,” Roessler said. “This matter damages our reputation and the longstanding policy that I have stated many times that our officers shall not act as immigration agents. The officer involved in this event has been relieved of all law enforcement duties pending the outcome of this investigation. It is my duty to enforce our FCPD &#8212; and Fairfax County &#8212; policies and hold all accountable for their actions.”
Roessler <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fairfax-county-officer-suspended-for-turning-driver-over-to-ice-after-accident-police-say/2019/10/01/ff4a161e-e46b-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html">told The Washington Post</a> that the officer who detained the immigrant had been a policeman for a “few years.” Roessler added that the officer did not willfully violate the department’s policy and was aware of his mistake.
“This is an unfortunate issue where the officer was confused,” Roessler told the outlet. “We have trained on this issue a lot. This is the first time we’ve had a lapse in judgment, and the officer is being punished.”

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More than 100 additional arrests were made during last week’s Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s operation than previously reported.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-offices-across-the-country-arrested-hundreds-of-criminal-illegal-immigrants-last-week">reported</a> Saturday that 443 illegal immigrants, the majority of which had previous criminal histories, were arrested as part of a week-long enforcement action by ICE. The agency has since released new information showing that an additional 154 criminal aliens were arrested during that time throughout the Midwest and in the Washington, D.C. and Virginia areas.
Fifty-seven illegal immigrants were arrested in D.C. and Virginia, including 41 with prior arrests, pending charges, or past convictions for crimes including sexual assault, aggravated assault, driving under the influence and drug-related offenses.
“We focus our resources on those who pose a threat to public safety. The arrests made during this targeted enforcement action required weeks of preparation and research by our officers,” said Lyle Boelens, acting field office director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations office in Washington, D.C. “This is the kind of work our officers do every day to help make our communities safer.”
A <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-targeted-enforcement-action-nets-57-arrests-over-5-day-period-va-dc">press release</a> from the office stated that nationally, “approximately 90% of all people arrested by ICE during fiscal year 2019 either had a criminal conviction, a pending criminal charge, had illegally re-entered the United States after being previously removed (a felony charge) or were an immigration fugitive subject to a judge’s final order of removal.
The agency emphasized its focus on illegal immigrants who “pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security,” but said it did not exempt those without criminal records who have entered the country illegally.
In the Midwest, 97 criminal aliens and other immigration violators were arrested across six states. Twenty-eight were arrested in Illinois, 14 in Indiana, 22 in Kansas, 12 in Kentucky, 10 in Missouri, and 11 in Wisconsin. The agency said in <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-97-criminal-aliens-and-immigration-violators-5-day-enforcement-surge-6">a press release</a>  that more than half of those arrested had prior criminal histories. Those histories included convictions for “assault, battery, domestic violence, child exploitation, sexual assault, driving under the influence (DUI), drug possession, re-entry after deportation, resisting officers, obstruction of justice, hit-and-run and illegally possessing weapons.”
Fifteen of the illegal immigrants arrested were immigration fugitives and another 19 had illegally re-entered the U.S. after a previous deportation.
Offices across the country, from Colorado to New England, had announced the arrests of more than 400 criminal aliens. As with those arrested in the Midwest and D.C., the majority had prior criminal histories that included convictions and charges for sexual assault (including sexual assault of minors), burglary, assault, domestic violence, driving under the influence, and drug-related offenses.
For many ICE offices, local policies regarding illegal immigrants made it difficult for agents to apprehend dangerous criminals. In a statement, acting field office director for ERO Denver, John Fabbricatore, called out Colorado’s policies.
“Our ICE officers still managed to find and detain many dangerous criminals despite the Colorado law that prohibits local law enforcement jurisdictions from cooperating with ICE,” Fabbricatore said. “We continually work to keep our communities safe from Colorado’s misguided priorities of protecting criminal aliens at the expense of its citizens.”

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On Thursday, new acts were added to New York City’s list of what constitutes “hate.”
The NYC Commission on Human Rights announced “new legal enforcement guidance and actions against discrimination based on immigration status and national origin.”
The new crimes include, according to a press release from the commission, “Threatening to call [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] when motivated by discrimination, derogatory use of the term ‘illegal alien,’ and discrimination based on limited English proficiency are unlawful discriminatory treatment under the NYC Human Rights Law.”
The commission also said it was “currently investigating 4 cases involving discrimination based on threats to call ICE in order to harass, threaten, or intimidate a victim.”
It is unclear exactly how an alleged instance of discrimination could be investigated, considering the “he said/she said” nature of the allegations. Either a lot of cases will result in no findings or New York City residents will lose some due process rights in order to determine their guilt. And this says nothing of the First Amendment rights for speech — even objectionable speech.
“In the face of increasingly hostile national rhetoric, we will do everything in our power to make sure our treasured immigrant communities are able to live with dignity and respect, free of harassment and bias,&#8221; Human Rights Commission Chair Carmelyn P. Malalis said in a statement <a href="https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/telling-nyers-speak-english-could-draw-250k-fine-city-says">published by Patch</a>. &#8220;Today&#8217;s guidance makes abundantly clear that there is no room for discrimination in NYC.&#8221;
The commission told the outlet that it was actually investigating seven cases where landlords threatened to call immigration services on tenants for not paying their rent.
The new guidance “defines discrimination on the basis of perceived or actual immigration status and national origin under the New York City Human Rights Law in public accommodations, employment, and housing.”
“The guidance states that the use of the term ‘illegal alien,’ among others, when used with intent to demean, humiliate, or harass a person, is illegal under the law,” the commission said in its press release. “Further, the guidance stipulates that harassing or discriminating against someone for their use of another language or their limited English proficiency, and threatening to call ICE on a person based on a discriminatory motive, are considered to be in violation of the law.”
Those found in violation face fines of up to $250,000, which “can be assessed for each act of willful discrimination, and damages are available to complainants.”
That last part — about providing damages to accusers — could set up the new policy for abuse. Need money? Accuse your employer of discrimination.
Patch provided some examples of how New York City residents could be in violation of the new guidance:
<blockquote>A store owner would violate the law if he tells two shoppers speaking Thai to &#8220;speak English&#8221; and &#8220;go back to your country,&#8221; the guidance says. Forcings [sic] prospective tenants who appear not to be U.S. citizens to put down six months of rent as a security deposit while only requiring one month&#8217;s rent from those thought to be citizens would also be illegal, according to the commission.</blockquote>

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Former ICE director Tom Homan slammed Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and her Democratic colleagues on Thursday for holding President Donald Trump and his administration to a different standard than they had for former President Barack Obama.
During the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s hearing on immigrant detention facilities, Jayapal criticized the Trump administration for skirting Congressional authority and financing agency operations with millions of dollars that were initially slated for other functions.
&#8220;I&#8217;d like to remind you that under the Obama administration we did that most of the years he was president. We moved money around [the Department of Homeland Security] &#8212; it&#8217;s called reprogramming,&#8221; Homan responded. &#8220;We did that under the Obama administration and I don&#8217;t remember any hearings on that.&#8221;
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Homan also fired back over Democrats&#8217; seeming outrage regarding family separation. During the Obama administration, the federal courts ruled that the government is prohibited from detaining children for longer than 20 days. Since the 20-day window is generally not long enough to process the detained families, children and their accompanying adults are consequently separated as not to violate what is referred to as the Flores Settlement Agreement. However, Democrats have been lambasting Trump for residing over policies that keep children in cages.
&#8220;You are quick to point out the cages that were built under the Obama administration. I was there. Family detention &#8212; we had 100 family beds under the Obama administration and we built 3,000 more,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;When there was a surge in [2014 and 2015], Congress was quick to give all the money we needed to build detention facilities, get transportation contracts. We reprogrammed money out of the majority of the years he was president &#8212; that was fine.&#8221;
&#8220;If this is about transparency, let&#8217;s be factual about it,&#8221; he added.
Jayapal, who serves as the subcommittee&#8217;s chairwoman, tried to defend her position by stating that she was never in favor of those policies, even while Obama was in office. She subsequently cut off Homan&#8217;s time.
&#8220;Be honest with the American people. You can&#8217;t point out faults in the Trump administration when it happened under the Obama administration,&#8221; he interjected. &#8220;That&#8217;s dishonesty. It&#8217;s pathetic and it&#8217;s sad.&#8221;
Earlier during the hearing, Homan took a shot at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and members of her Democratic caucus for vilifying law enforcement officers. The self-proclaimed &#8220;radical&#8221; congresswoman ignited a firestorm in June after she compared illegal immigrant detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps.
While members of the media and some of her Democratic colleagues tried to defend the comparison, she was largely met with backlash for her historical inaccuracy and insensitivity to the millions of Jews who were slaughtered in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
&#8220;That comparison is 100% inaccurate and it is disgusting,&#8221; Homan said during the hearing. &#8220;Now forgive me, I didn&#8217;t think Nazi death camps had detention standards, I didn&#8217;t think they had health care, I didn&#8217;t think they had recreation, law libraries, visitation, three squares a day. It&#8217;s an insulting comparison.&#8221;
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) later reiterated the offensiveness of the comparison.
&#8220;Thank you for saying that,&#8221; Homan responded. &#8220;I wish someone in Democratic leadership would say that out loud.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, you want to know why there is 50,000 people in detention? You want to know why there are a million illegal entries in the United States? You want to know why we have these issues? Because you have failed to secure the border,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You guys failed to work with this president to close the three loopholes we&#8217;ve asked for two years to close.&#8221; You have failed the American people by not securing the border.&#8221;
Jayapal again cut off Homan&#8217;s time and slammed the gavel for silence.

Tom Homan at roundtable

WATCH: Former ICE Director Slams Progressive Lawmaker For ‘Pathetic And Sad’ Dishonesty In Fiery Exchange

Abolish ICE thugs in Colorado want to see the homes and families of immigration enforcement officials set aflame.
Denver communists want alien detention facility employees dead, swinging from nooses with broken necks.
Both groups are brazenly using Facebook to spread their inflammatory and violent messages. So, where is Silicon Valley — whose top companies partner with the Southern Poverty Law Center smear machine to de-platform conservatives, pro-lifers and Donald Trump supporters — to stop the open borders left&#8217;s escalating hate?
On Thursday, Sept. 19, Abolish ICE Denver and the Denver Communists are organizing a protest outside the house of Johnny Choate, the warden of the immigrant detention facility in Aurora, Colorado. Choate works for GEO Group, which operates the center. Instead of laying blame at the feet of global profiteers who induce illegal immigrants to risk their families&#8217; lives to trespass our borders, anti-ICE agitators are targeting homeland security employees and contractors who simply enforce federal immigration and detention laws passed by Congress.
The Denver Communists group shared a poster on Facebook with Choate&#8217;s face superimposed over a generic neighborhood map with private residential homes. &#8220;CONFRONT LA MIGRA WHERE THEY LIVE,&#8221; the radicals urged members. The graphic describes Choate as &#8220;warden of Aurora&#8217;s notorious ICE concentration camp.&#8221; That&#8217;s the same inflammatory and defamatory language popularized by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and used by antifa militant Willem Van Spronsen, who attempted to firebomb the Tacoma ICE facility, also run by GEO Group, in July.
The protest announcement also includes the phrase, &#8220;Chinga La Migra!&#8221; It&#8217;s the slogan of Mijente, a Latino activist group leading the Abolish ICE movement. Translation: &#8220;F—- the Border Patrol.&#8221;
A commenter edited a distorted image of Choate&#8217;s face surrounded by flames, suggesting arson. His post was liked by three other fans/followers/members of the Denver Communists&#8217; Facebook Group.
Another commenter leveled his own explicit thread on the Facebook page targeting Choate and his family in his home:
&#8220;Reenact human rights abuses, get hanged by the neck until dead. Simple.&#8221;
As I report in my book &#8220;Open Borders Inc.: Who&#8217;s Funding America&#8217;s Destruction?&#8221; this virulent hatred for ICE and the Border Patrol traces its ideological lineage back to the cop-bashing domestic terrorism of the 1970s that festered in academia and resulted in bloodshed across the country at the hands of the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground. Today&#8217;s Abolish ICE extremists harbor the same seething &#8220;Pigs in a blanket, fry &#8217;em like bacon&#8221; contempt for immigration enforcement as the &#8220;progressive&#8221; cop-haters of the 1970s and their George Soros-subsidized heirs in the Bush-era A.N.S.W.E.R. and amnesty coalitions, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movement.
The underlying mission back then was the same as now: Destabilization, disruption and destruction of civil order.
David Booth, who lives in Choate&#8217;s neighborhood, refuses to sit by while these bullies invade his community.
&#8220;I was shocked and surprised when I found out there was going to be an &#8216;ICE protest&#8217; in my neighborhood,&#8221; he told me Tuesday. Booth discovered that Abolish ICE Denver used Facebook to spread information on how they will be &#8220;going door to door in the neighborhood to let people know that a &#8216;monster&#8217; lives among us.&#8221;
Booth condemned the witch hunt headed his community&#8217;s way: &#8220;This policy of intimidation that we see the left continue to use is not OK. &#8230; I would like to see the neighborhood rise up and support this man and his family.&#8221;
I reached out to Facebook for a response to these public safety concerns, but received no answer by my deadline. For Coloradans, violent threats to law enforcement officials&#8217; neighborhoods are especially disturbing given the chilling 2013 assassination of the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections outside his home in Monument.
Booth will stand publicly in defense of his community Thursday and says he has his neighbors&#8217; support. &#8220;I think most of us, if not all, believe this protest is inappropriate regardless of where we stand on the issue of immigration,&#8221; said Booth. &#8220;Our neighbor is just doing his job, and has done nothing wrong, or illegal, in carrying out his duties.&#8221;
Following Stand With ICE rallies in Aurora, Colorado, and Montgomery County, Maryland, that have drawn nearly 1,000 citizens over the past two weeks, Booth decided he could not sit on the sidelines. He is not alone, and we have only just begun. I will join Coloradans again on Saturday, Sept. 21, when another Abolish ICE group marches to the Aurora ICE facility where the American flag was torn down in July.
If not us, who? If not now, when?
Michelle Malkin&#8217;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

Anti-ICE Protestors

MALKIN: Facebook Incites Violent War On ICE

Protesters against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) flocked to the home of Johnny Choate, warden of the Aurora, Colorado ICE facility on Thursday night, chanting &#8220;Abolish ICE!&#8221;
<a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/protest-will-target-home-of-aurora-ice-detention-center-official">Prior to the protest</a>, the group Abolish ICE enthused on Facebook, &#8220;Join us in confronting a high-level immigration-enforcement official at their home! We will also be canvassing their neighborhood and informing their neighbors about their role in the inhumane organization they work for.&#8221; Matthew Wozniak, an organizer with Abolish ICE, stated, &#8220;This is the next step in our work towards changing the system and bringing justice towards millions of families … We need to force the dialogue on folks that are so far not interested in hearing what we have to say.&#8221;
Abolish ICE Denver wrote on September 7 that high level officials were &#8220;shaking in their boots.&#8221; They <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AbolishICEDenver/photos/gm.584502552083854/439479056661677/?type=3">wrote on Facebook</a>:
<blockquote>People have been asking about ways to get involved in protesting the deplorable conditions and human rights abuses at the ICE concentration camp in Aurora, CO.
This camp is notorious for numerous outbreaks and quarantines, coverups, medical neglect, torture via solitary confinement (up to nine months) of trans, gay, and mentally ill captives, and was one of 4 camps nationwide that was recently reprimanded by *Trump&#8217;s own Department of Homeland Security* for human rights abuses. That&#8217;s unbelievably bad.
The protests, marches, and vigils are working –– high-level officials are shaking in their boots right now, knowing that the people of Colorado are continuing to escalate our DEMANDS for justice for the people held inside GEO.
We plan to peacefully assemble and exercise our First Amendment rights outside the home of Johnny Choate in Aurora, CO. Bring a sign, poster, musical instrument, and all your righteous rage and let&#8217;s make sure every one of his neighbors knows exactly what they are living next to.
Please share this infographic and invite a friend or 9! Human rights only come alive when we protest, organize, strike and rebel in order to uphold justice!</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/protesters-plan-to-bring-righteous-rage-to-warden-of-auroras-ice-concentration-camp">The Washington Examiner</a> reported that Colorado GOP Chairman Ken Buck stated, &#8220;The planned protest outside Warden Choate&#8217;s home by extreme anti-ICE protesters goes beyond the pale. Groups like Abolish ICE have demonstrated they have little regard for the rule of law, and the threatening nature of this protest should be taken very seriously. It should not be difficult for elected officials from either party to speak out against this blatant attempt to terrorize Mr. Choate, his family, and his neighbors.&#8221;
Acting Field Director for ICE John Fabbricatore told Denver7, &#8220;The intent is really on the safety of our officers. So there’s been a lot of rhetoric that has come out on various things that our officers are either unsafe or they’re not doing the right thing by the immigrant population and that is very much untrue.&#8221;
Colorado state Rep. Patrick Neville tweeted on Thursday night, &#8220;This is horrendous and awful. These thugs are threatening this man and his family at his private residence. Have they no decency? Where is GovofCO? Condemn this behavior!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This is horrendous and awful. These thugs are threatening this man and his family at his private residence. Have they no decency? Where is <a href="https://twitter.com/GovofCO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovofCO</a>? Condemn this behavior! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/copolitics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#copolitics</a> <a href="https://t.co/fMYHsuu9cD">pic.twitter.com/fMYHsuu9cD</a>
— Rep. Patrick Neville (@PatrickForCO) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatrickForCO/status/1174882352595554304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Colorado House Republicans echoed, &#8220;Radicals are marching on the home of an honorable man tonight. Yet, we still have radio silence from @GovofCO. We’re waiting, Governor. Denounce the radical and violent left now.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Radicals are marching on the home of an honorable man tonight. Yet, we still have radio silence from <a href="https://twitter.com/GovofCO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovofCO</a>. We&#8217;re waiting, Governor. Denounce the radical and violent left now. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandWithICE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StandWithICE</a> <a href="https://t.co/JJWuoYACiR">https://t.co/JJWuoYACiR</a> <a href="https://t.co/PmCOxtJOEO">pic.twitter.com/PmCOxtJOEO</a>
— CO House Republicans (@COHouseGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/COHouseGOP/status/1174729369731792896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Leftists March On Home Of ICE Colorado Warden

Colorado

These are the rules of the militant open borders media:
If you are a self-declared Donald Trump-hating &#8220;activist journalist&#8221; who works for an ethnic separatist TV network that unapologetically elevates illegal immigrants over American citizens, you get to be a &#8220;moderator&#8221; at the next Democratic presidential candidates&#8217; debate.
Case in point: Univision&#8217;s Jorge Ramos.
But if you are an activist journalist who exposes immigration anarchy, investigates the global financiers behind it and unapologetically defends American sovereignty, you are dismissed as a &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; and &#8220;racist&#8221; who will never be allowed to pose counterbalancing questions at any national political forum.
Case in point: yours truly.
If there is no mainstream media bias, why is it that the most buzz-worthy immigration questions asked by the media&#8217;s phony arbiters of neutrality are all framed from the perspective of illegal immigrants — and never American citizens?
If Democrats &#8220;don&#8217;t want &#8216;open borders,'&#8221; as anointed fact-checker at the Fishwrap of Record (a.k.a. Linda Qiu of The New York Times) claims, why is it that every last Democratic candidate marches lockstep on the side of exponentially expanding government benefits, rights and privileges for illegal immigrants — driver&#8217;s licenses, in-state tuition discounts, &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; — and never limiting them?
And why has the fundamental concept of &#8220;sovereignty&#8221; never been deemed a worthy enough topic for a stand-alone national town hall — unlike guns or climate change?
Here is my top seven list of Democratic debate questions on immigration that Jorge Ramos (and the rest of the feckless Fourth Estate elites, for that matter) won&#8217;t ask:
1) This debate is taking place on the day after the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by 19 foreign Muslim hijackers, five of whom had overstayed their temporary visas. A bipartisan commission urged our government to build a biometric entry-exit program to track and remove visa overstayers — who comprise an estimated 40% of the total illegal immigrant population. But thanks to Open Borders Inc. lobbyists from the travel industry, universities and big business, the system has never been finished. In 2018, nearly 670,000 foreigners broke the rules and overstayed their visas. Will you protect America by fulfilling the 9/11 commission&#8217;s recommendation to implement a fully functioning entry-exit program?
2) This debate is taking place in Houston, long a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; for illegal immigrants. The deliberate failure to check the immigration status of criminal suspects and the willful decision not to cooperate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has resulted in untold deaths, including the murder of Houston police officer Rodney Johnson in 2006. Johnson&#8217;s killer had been previously deported to Mexico, re-entered illegally and was arrested at least three times for drunk driving and child molestation charges before shooting Johnson, an Army veteran and Houston PD gang unit leader, fatally during a traffic stop. Do you support the right of American citizens such as widow Joslyn Johnson, whose loved ones were murdered by repeat illegal alien criminal offenders, to sue sanctuary cities that prevent cops from communicating with ICE agents about detainees&#8217; immigration status?
3) This debate is taking place in Texas, where the notorious Mexican serial killer Angel Resendiz wantonly murdered more than 15 innocent men and women between 1986 and 1998 by exploiting our catch-and-release system. More recently, Kenyan serial killer suspect Billy Chemirmir was arrested in the gruesome smothering deaths of 12 elderly women and one grandfather across Texas. Those victims would still be alive today if Chemirmir had been deported after overstaying his visa, entering a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen and racking up multiple charges of assault and domestic violence. What is your plan — let&#8217;s start with planner-in-chief Elizabeth Warren — to prevent senseless and deadly violence committed by criminal illegal immigrant deportation fugitives?
4) Teenager Joshua Wilkerson was tortured and beaten to death by an illegal immigrant from Belize near the sanctuary city of Houston. Wilkerson&#8217;s mom, Laura, confronted Nancy Pelosi about the devastating impact sanctuary anarchy had and asked: &#8220;How do you reconcile in your head about allowing people to disavow the law?&#8221; Do you support the continued separation of American families by criminals in this country illegally protected by sanctuary policies? How do you reconcile Pelosi&#8217;s glib rhetoric that illegal immigrants are &#8220;law-abiding&#8221; with the bloody reality suffered by Rodney Johnson, Wilkerson and the dozens of victims of Angel Resendiz and Billy Chemirmir?
5) ICE agents have been doxxed, harassed, shot at and demonized as racist terrorists while trying to stop child predators, arrest drunk drivers, apprehend serial killers and prevent the next 9/11 plotted by visa overstayers, border crossers, deportation evaders and ID thieves. Do you condemn the reckless incitements to violence by the &#8220;abolish ICE&#8221; and antifa movements?
6) Will you renounce anti-ICE hate speech and return campaign donations from individuals and organizations who disseminate it? Let&#8217;s see a show of hands.
7) If you support every last gun control measure that might possibly &#8220;save just one life,&#8221; why don&#8217;t you support illegal immigrant crime control that could have averted the 100% preventable deaths of untold innocent Americans right here in Texas? Anyone? Anyone?
Michelle Malkin&#8217;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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MALKIN: 7 Dem Debate Questions Jorge Ramos Won’t Ask

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Media Bias

According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), roughly 500 illegal immigrants have been set free from jails across North Carolina since October 2018 even though federal detainers had been issued against them.
As <a href="https://www.wbtv.com/2019/09/09/ice-nearly-undocumented-immigrants-released-nc-jails-despite-detainer/">WBTV</a> explains, &#8220;A detainer is an administrative request from the federal government to a local law enforcement agency to hold someone in jail even after they are eligible for release on their state charge. A detainer is often used by ICE to keep undocumented immigrants in jail because removal from the country is a civil action and not a criminal matter.&#8221; WBTV noted, &#8220;According to the new ICE data obtained by WBTV, the nearly 500 undocumented immigrants who have been released in FY19 despite a federal detainer include people charged with sex offenses, kidnapping, arson and homicide.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article222758470.html">The Charlotte Observer</a> reported in December 2018, on his first day on the job, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden ended the county&#8217;s 287(g) program. ICE <a href="https://www.ice.gov/287g">noted</a>, &#8220;This section of law authorizes the Director of ICE to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, that permit designated officers to perform limited immigration law enforcement functions.&#8221;
ICE Atlanta Field Office Director Sean Gallagher issued a statement to the Charlotte Observer condemning McFadden&#8217;s withdrawal of the program, asserting that it &#8220;will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests instead of arrests at the jail where enforcement is safer for everyone involved … . In Fiscal Year 2018 the Mecklenburg County 287(g) program encountered 1,185 criminal aliens; yesterday&#8217;s decision to end this law enforcement agreement leaves them to reoffend against the people of Mecklenburg County.&#8221; ICE pointed out that it had &#8220;has 287(g) agreements with <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article222758470.html">78 law enforcement agencies in 20 states</a>.&#8221;
After McFadden withdrew from 287 (g), other North Carolina sheriffs started following suit; in December 2018, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/10/2-more-north-carolina-sheriffs-end-agreements-with/?utm_source=GOOGLE&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_id=chacka&amp;utm_campaign=TWT+-+DSA&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvOH5rNTG5AIVD9vACh01cQAdEAMYASAAEgKRzfD_BwE">The Washington Times</a> reported, &#8220;News outlets report that Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker and Durham County Sheriff Clarence F. Birkhead announced their respective policy changes Friday. Wake County joins Mecklenburg County in pulling out of the federal 287(g) program … . Durham County hasn&#8217;t participated in 287(g), and it will no longer honor ICE detainers, which are used to hold suspects up to an additional 48 hours.&#8221;
A senior ICE official told WBTV:
<blockquote>The level of criminal aliens intentionally released into Mecklenburg and the surrounding counties is alarming, but even worse is that the true extent of this dangerous trend may never be fully realized … . If an illegal alien is arrested for a crime and is then released by local law enforcement without ever alerting ICE officials, a lifted detainer will never be registered in our systems and the alien may only come to our attention once it&#8217;s too late. The reality is that when they obstruct federal law enforcement&#8217;s mission of upholding our nation&#8217;s laws and keeping American&#8217;s safe, the people who lose most are those they&#8217;re supposed to put first.</blockquote>
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) added:
<blockquote>North Carolina counties are releasing illegal immigrants charged with violent crimes like rape and murder without even notifying federal officials, jeopardizing public safety. This is why Congress needs to pass legislation I introduced to protect North Carolinians from dangerous criminals and to hold sanctuary counties responsible for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.</blockquote>

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