Maryland Counties Prepare to Release Violent Illegal Aliens Back Into the Community
Source: Courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Two sanctuary counties in Maryland are preparing to release criminal aliens charged with violent crimes like attempted murder, rape and child abuse back into the community despite the fact that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has active detainers on the illegal immigrants.
Source: Courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Two sanctuary counties in Maryland are preparing to release criminal aliens charged with violent crimes like attempted murder, rape and child abuse back into the community despite the fact that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has active detainers on the illegal immigrants.
ICE rages against sanctuaries, claims 90% of arrests face criminal charges
Facing a widening national sanctuary movement for criminal illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aggressively pushing back, claiming that soft-hearted political and community leaders are releasing murderers and rapists.
After a county bordering Washington, D.C., joined over 300 sanctuary governments late last week, ICE has released the photos of 66 mostly Hispanic wanted illegal immigrants held by those jurisdictions to drive home its point that those set free are hardened criminals.
It also knocked down claims that it is targeting illegal immigrants facing no criminal charges, noting that 90% of those arrested are convicts or wanted for alleged criminal acts.
“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 federal felony), or were an immigration fugitive subject to a final order of removal,” said ICE in its campaign against “non-cooperative jurisdictions.”
Last week, Prince George’s County, Maryland, joined other D.C. areas in ordering law enforcement to not cooperate with ICE when the agency requests that illegal immigrant criminals in custody be turned over for court action or deportation.
ICE decried move and added that all it wants is to seize criminals and those wanted for crimes.
"The only way a person is subject to an ICE detainer ... is if they are handcuffed and arrested for a crime committed in the local community," said acting ICE Director Matt Albence.
In releasing the photos of the 66 wanted in Maryland and North Carolina, ICE said, “When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release serious criminal offenders onto the streets, it undermines ICE's ability to protect public safety and carry out its mission. As ICE has repeatedly made clear, when local jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement, they not only betray their duty to protect public safety, but force ICE to be more visible in those areas.”
The rage displayed by ICE is the latest administration attack on the sanctuary movement endorsed by top Democrats, several of whom have called for the abolition of ICE.
Last week, Attorney General William Barr and acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf ripped moves in Oregon and Washington to bar ICE from seizing criminal illegal immigrants in or near state courthouses. As with local jails, ICE argues that seizing illegal immigrants is safest in those facilities.
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