DHS Releases Immigration and Customs Enforcement Declined Detainer Outcome Report
WASHINGTON
– The Department of Homeland Security today issued the U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) Declined Detainer Outcome Report required by
President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order,
Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States, signed on
January 25. This report will be issued
weekly to highlight jurisdictions that choose not to cooperate with ICE
detainers or requests for notification, therefore potentially endangering
Americans. ICE places detainers on aliens who have been arrested on local
criminal charges or who are in local custody and for whom ICE possesses
probable cause to believe that they are removable from the United States, so
that ICE can take custody of the alien when he or she is released from local
custody.
“When
law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release
serious criminal offenders, it undermines ICE’s ability to protect the public
safety and carry out its mission,” said Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan. “Our
goal is to build cooperative, respectful relationships with our law enforcement
partners. 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.”
The
Declined Detainer Outcome Report is a weekly report that lists the
jurisdictions that have declined to honor ICE detainers or requests for
notification and includes examples of criminal charges associated with those
released aliens. The report provides information on declined detainers and
requests for notification for that reporting period. A jurisdiction’s appearance
on this report is not an exclusive factor in determining a jurisdiction’s level
of cooperation with ICE. This report is intended to provide the public with
information regarding criminal actions committed by aliens and any jurisdiction
that ignores or otherwise failed to honor any detainers or requests for
notification with respect to such aliens.
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