ICE report highlights sanctuary cities that refuse to hand over undocumented criminals

By Brian Seay

A new report released Monday makes good on a Trump administration promise to apply pressure to so-called sanctuary cities, a strategy that’s part of an overall push for the deportation of violent, undocumented criminals living in America.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released the report, which provides details on jurisdictions nationwide that have failed to notify federal authorities when undocumented immigrants are released from their custody.
The Declined Detainer Outcome Report outlines data for the week of Jan. 28, and the Department of Homeland Security says updated reports will be released each week. The effort is a result of President Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order that mandates the compiling of “a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction that ignored or otherwise failed to honor any detainers with respect to such aliens.”
A detainer notifies law enforcement agencies that ICE plans to take custody of an undocumented immigrant. According to this week’s report, ICE issued more than 3,000 detainers nationwide from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3. Of those, 206 were declined by jurisdictions in 16 states during the same timeframe. The report detailed which counties declined to honor the detainers, as well as examples of the criminal activity of the

Source: Guns.com