DHS: Travis County declined 142 ICE detainer requests in a week

(Chambersburg) – Franklin County, whose electorate overwhelmingly backed Donald Trump in 2016, is on the top-10 list of jurisdictions that do not comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests for detainers.

In an executive order signed January 25, President Donald Trump said the list is necessary to “better inform the public regarding the public safety threats associated with sanctuary jurisdictions”. She said she believed local police want to defend and protect Hispanics, and urged the audience to listen to what they had to say. “We will continue collaborating with them to help ensure that illegal aliens who may pose a threat to our communities are not released onto the streets to potentially harm individuals living within our communities”. “Public safety is not being compromised”.

The ICE list promises that “the number of issued detainers will increase over the next several reporting periods”. Keller says the county never gets to the point that it has to decline adetainer due to the frequency and quality of its relationship with ICE. Alachua County, Fla., Franklin County, Iowa, and Franklin County, Pa., each had five.

Department of Homeland Security officials insist the sensitive locations policy is still in place and being followed.

When someone is released from jail, that’s public information that anyone can obtain. “Clackamas County honored an ICE detainer and held Ms. Miranda-Olivares ultimately costing taxpayers in excess of $100,000”.

“The county is considered an uncooperative jurisdiction because of the way our policy is written”, Keller said.

The Austin American-Statesman, which first reported the courtroom admission, noted that ICE had previously denied targeting Travis County for so-called “sanctuary city” policies. But ICE does not yet know how these jurisdictions responded to the detainers. ICE reviews the database for people with possible immigration violations then sends a detainer request for the jail to hold that inmate for 48 hours until ICE can take custody. Even though, Carbajal said, “their message is ICE has much discretion and broad authority”.

“When we looked at the detainer requests, they were not often focused on any serious crimes”, he said.

“A copy of this report is available on the ICE website that details all of the municipalities where there has been an issue and the crime that has been committed, and the person – not necessarily the person’s name, but the offense in which they were convicted for”, Spicer added.

Reams said he couldn’t speak in specifics about the case ICE highlighted because ICE officials did not provide the sheriff’s office with any details about the case. There are six cases out of Boulder, four of which involve people convicted of assault and burglary and two of which involve people accused – but not yet convicted – of drug possession.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has blocked $1.5 million to Travis County after the newly elected Democratic sheriff announced after Trump’s inauguration that her jails would no longer honor all detainer requests. “They are lying to local officials and to the press about what their activities are”. “I was not notified”.

McDermott says people won’t report crimes if they fear they will be federally detained if they do.

King, Snohomish, Skagit and Thurston are a few Washington counties that made the list. Nassau County, New York, with 38 was second.

At the time of that article, when asked about the possibility of DHS publishing weekly reports of declined detainers, Mayor Hancock’s spokeswoman Amber Miller said, “Posting the [declined] detainers is, in our view, an act of bullying and trying to push us to act unconstitutionally”. ICE has made 14 corrections so far.

I am also baffled as to why my agency would be listed as a county that has a policy of “non-cooperation”, as we have a clear track record of working with ICE when they are conducting a criminal investigation on one of our inmates.

Or having taken individuals into custody, found it did not have a legal basis to deport them.